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Name: _______________The Harlem Renaissance & Jazz WebQuestFor each section, use the provided link for a website to answer the questions (you may have to copy and paste some links). You can type your answers and then print OR you can print the sheet and write in your answers.Harlem Renaissance Video this introductory video for a basic understanding of the Harlem Renaissance. Just listen and watch; no questions to answer about video.PBS History of Harlem Renaissance was the Harlem Renaissance? Why did African-Americans move north? List three African American artists whose works received recognition.In the 1920s, when a person identified as the “New Negro” what did they stand for?What was the greatest impact of the Harlem Renaissance?Harlem Renaissance Artist Langston Hughes Biography year was Langston Hughes born? ________________ What year did he die? ________________What were some of the changes (or challenges) that Langston Hughes went through as a child growing up? Hughes was particularly known for his __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. How did Hughes get published? did Langston Hughes do that was pretty gutsy and helped him get his first work published? Jazz & BluesJazz and Blues were both extremely popular starting in the 1920s. Hailing from New Orleans, jazz music was first known as “jass” then later dropped the two “ss” into “zz” which means “cool.” Jazz took shape in several brass bands. The jazz style then was dominated by the use of the saxophone, piano, cornet, and the trombone. Particularly from the southern part of Mississippi, blues came into being with its first ever recorded blues music in the 1920s. Around that time, blues was usually played as a solo compared to the ensembles of jazz music. Although blues music has long since grown to utilize intricate bands, the first blues solo player just used a slide guitar as his primary musical instrument.Explain two differences between Jazz and Blues based on the introductory paragraph:(A)(B)Pick a jazz or blues soundtrack to play while you watch the YouTube video on the History of Jazz:Jazz that you have a soundtrack playing: open a new Google browser window and play this History of Jazz video. Answers the questions as you watch the video. Complete the quote: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is __________.”True or False: Spirituals and work songs are the foundation of American jazz.What musical term is associated with dragging out certain notes and rearranging music to make it livelier?Jazz was created by this group of people ( ______________________) in the city of (_________________).Big Band swing is another form of _________.Who was one of the first African American musicians to become truly successful and accepted in racially divided America?Complete the quote: “Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a ___________ that America has given ________________________________.” ................
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