Harlem Renaissance: Hip Hop or Harlem?

Harlem Renaissance

Introduction

Take Notes in your notebook.

Harlem Renaissance Notes

1.In the 1920s, the New York City
neighborhood of Harlem became the
artistic home of Black America.

2.The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering
of African American talent in:
- Literature
- Arts
- Theatre
- Music
(Jazz– the first original American art form)

3. Black artists celebrated their culture and
exalted their heritage instead of trying to
emulate white writers.

4. Writers did not share a style, but they did
share an urgent need to document the
experiences of their people.

Hip Hop

Harlem?

OR

Multiple Choice

Hip Hop Or Harlem? "Gonna buy me a knife with/ a blade ten inches long./ Shall I carve ma self or/ that man that done me wrong?"

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

Langston Hughes
SUICIDE

Multiple Choice

"Who is America? You, Me! We are America! To the enemy who would conquer us from without,/ We say,/ NO!/ To the enemy who would divide/ And conquer us from within,/ We say,/ NO!"

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

Langston
Hughes

Let America be America Again

Multiple Choice

"I came on a slave ship, enslaved/ from the cradle to the grave/ For too many generations/ Until the Emancipation freed a nation from the plantations."

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

2 Black 2 Strong
2 Black 2
Strong MMG

Multiple Choice

"One day I'm gonna bust/ Blow up on this society/ Why did ya lie to me?/ I couldn't find a trace of equality."

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

Tupac

Trapped

Multiple Choice

"In the past if you picture events like a black tie/ What's the last thing you expect to see, black guys/ What's the life expectancy for black guys? The systems working effectively, that's why"

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

Kanye West feat. Jay Z

Murder to
Excellence

Multiple Choice

"Oh when I think of my long-suffering race,/ For weary centuries despised, oppressed/ Enslaved and lynched, denied a human place."

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

Claude McKay

Enslaved

Multiple Choice

"Can one then separate the dust?/ Will mankind lie apart/ When life has settled back again/ the same as from the start?"

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Common
Dust

Hip Hop or Harlem?

8. “What though before us lies the open
grave?/ Like men we’ll face the murderous,
cowardly pack/ Pressed to the wall, dying, but
fighting back!”

Multiple Choice

"What though before us lies the open grave?/ Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack/ Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!"

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

Claude McKay

If we must
die

Hip Hop or Harlem?

9. “Rock and roll to the beat of the funk
fuzz/ Wipe your feet really good on the
rhythm rug/ If you feel the urge to freak, do
the jitterbug/ Come and spread your arms if
you really need a hug”

Multiple Choice

"Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz/ Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug/ If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug/ Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug"

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

A tribe called Quest
Can I kick It

Multiple Choice

"But it was a dream for the teen, who was a fiend,/ started smokin' woolies at sixteen/ And runnin up in gates/ and doing hits for high stakes/ Making my way on fire escapes"

• Hip Hop

• Harlem

(Cash Rules Everything Around Me)

C.R.E.A.M

Wu Tang Clan

The End

It seems that African American poetry is still
concentrated on race relations, and rap music today
still shows the disillusionment they experience when
they express the need for change within society.