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Ragtime
Ragtime emerged in the 1890s was , composed music , written down for performance on the piano . Ragtime pieces were not accompanied by lyrics and not meant to be . -
Blues & Jazz
Jazz and blues are like brothers they grew up side by side. Blues id both musical an jazz is more of art. -
Harlem Renaissance
The cultural, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this period Harlem was a cultural center -
Blacks and Sports ( Jack johnson , Rube Foster , etc )
African Americans have had a long and rather complex history in the American motion picture industry. Early depictions of African American men and women were confined to demeaning stereotypical images of people of color. During the first decades of the 20th century, many films depicted a nostalgic and idealized vision of life in the antebellum South. Memories of the Civil War were still fresh, and these films . -
Blacks in movies ( Paul Robeson , Oscar Micheaux, Gone with the wind , Imitation of Life
African Americans have had a long and rather complex history in the American motion picture industry. Early depictions of African American men and women were confined to demeaning stereotypical images of people of color.