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Jazz, The Great Migration & The New Negro Renaissance

Jazz & The New Negro: A Curated Playlist

In the first few decades of the 20th century, African Americans in scores of cities across the country were busy forging a new collective identity, known as the “New Negro,” as expressed in the visual and performing arts, political protest, and economic enterprise culminating in the Harlem Renaissance. Thanks to several historians the political activism […]Read Post ›

The Jazz Migration

While jazz was a central cultural component of life in Harlem, it was also crucial to scores of cities across the country, like New Orleans, Kansas City and Chicago, as African Americans journeyed north during the Great Migration.

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Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five “West End Blues”

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