... were given new social opportunities. During the 1920s, musical culture changed when jazz won a wide following. Jazz music was a blend of West African and Latin rhythms, African American spirituals and blues, and European harmonies. Joseph "King" Oliver helped to spread jazz northward with his creation of the Creole Jazz Band. As this happened, white musicians began incorporating jazz into their music ... about with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in Harlem, New York, of African American actors, artists, writers, and musicians. During this time blues and religious songs becam...

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... , 45) The owner of CBGB's, an aspiring entrepreneur and supporter of artistic endeavor named Hilly Crystal, founded the club in 1973. The name CBGB's stands for "Country Blue Grass and Blues,"" but it was punk rock that emanated from bands such as "Suicide," "The Ramones," "The Dictators," "The Patti Smith Group," "The Misfits," "The Dead Boys," "The Talking Heads," "Blondie," and ... ...

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... bring more Harlem poets to public notice by editing Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets in 1927. Langston Hughes published his first collection of verse, The Weary Blues, in 1926, and his novel Not Without Laughter appeared in 1930. In 1929 Wallace Thurman and William Jourden Rapp collaborated on a popular play, "Harlem". Thurman, one of the most individualistic ... ...

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... works, the impersonal linearity of the pre-1967 grids gave way to compositions based on arrangements of parallel stripes of varying breadth. With the introduction of soft washes of pinks, blues, and yellows, her touch became more painterly. She spread the surface layer of acrylic paint so thinly that light seemed to glow through it, even though the canvas "which ... ...

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