South American Artists

... with religious expression." (Locke 21). Spirituals were an interesting type of song; because it was the first time slave songs were uniform all over America, (the same spirituals used in South Carolina were used in Mississippi). In the 1800s, an event occurred that changed the slave community. A civil war broke out in America and when it was over the slaves were ... "from spirituals because they [were] very wordily instead of religious" (Cone 99). The Blues was more personal than spirituals and after the Civil War it became very popular in the South. Much of the Blues, if not all of it,...

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... Oscar Howe is arguably one of the most influential Native American artists to come out of South Dakota. His works have been published around the world, and he has had exhibits around the country and throughout Europe. All of ... at the Pierre Indian School, where he was first ostracized. He worked for room and board with no pay. In 1940 he was assigned to the South Dakota artists Project. While working with this group he painted the interior dome of the Carnegie Library. He also worked on a couple of mural paintings at the ... Indian Art Center in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. After being recog...

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• Grade Level: High School

... can find all the characteristic elements of the Hudson River School: meticulously rendered details, an almost religious reverence for the magnificence of the American wilderness, and a breathtaking landscape. However, with the growth of cities, a drastic increase in industry happened and, despite their appreciation for ... embodies fantasies about the West, which was then perceived as a huge unknown region, which offered infinite dangers but also incredible rewards. The American dream of expansionism through the latest technological and scientific tools became a reality at the end of the...

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... on a theatrical production, and relished the opportunity to creatively design without the constraint of creating clothing meant for daily usage. A friend of mine who "makes beats " for professional hip-hop artists, and had developed a reputation in the club scene as being a kind of wunderkind D.J., composed the music for the production. He, likewise, had never worked in theatre, and was surprised ... . Spurn, a dark-humored sketch comedy show that performed at Collective Unconscious, an alternative space on the Lower East Side, known primarily for outlandish performance art created by you...

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... , 547). It is amazing to see how far this fairly new genre of music has grown and developed, from its humble beginnings in the south Bronx to its widespread popularity today. During its thirty years of existence, the rap industry has continually changed, morphing its various styles, forms, ... the glamorous clothes and expensive entrance fees were excluded from participating in this disco revolution. However, around 1973, several ingenious men from the south Bronx found an alternative, utilizing rhythms and melodies from existing records to create a unique sound of their own. One of the...

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... inception of this particular singing style and scale in blues became the catalyst for the genres that followed it. Developed in the rural South, the first form of blues, called 12 bar blues, uses the African derived scale and sliding pitches combined with traditional European meter and ... the third is a response or comment on the first two. This music, first associated with the Mississippi Delta, when brought out of the south and popularized, notably by W.C. Handy. Taken north at the time of the exodus of African-Americans during the Great Migration, blues music took ... a course throu...

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... to seize upon its "first chances for group expression and self determination." It was a refuge from the all-pervasive racisim of American society. The Renaissance was mostly a literary movement where African Americans were encouraged to celebrate their heritage,a heritage marked by struggle and ... to giving artistic expression to the African American experience. Their writings dealt with black life from a black perspective, and it celebrated the characteristics of African American life and the enjoyment of life without fear. We younger negro artists now intend to express our individua...

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... tonight. A unique kind of song grew from the experience of the Africans brought to America in slavery. That unique song was the African American spiritual. The old spirituals had no known composers and were not written down. They passed from generation to generation of singers and are still ... century. Most blues songs tell of feelings of loneliness, sadness and lost love. The tempos of these songs are usually slow. Some influential African American blues artists were W.C. Handy (the father of the blues), Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith just to name a few of the early pioneers. Another sty...

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... authors like Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Dubois, William Wells Brown, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Charles Waddell Chesnutt and Frances Harper. The second of the two time periods assigned to African American literature is 20th century, and that would include authors such as Sterling A. Brown, Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and the list ... Wadell Chesnutt. His first book, The Conjure Woman published in 1899 was written in the style of a folk tale and discusses slavery in the South. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, most of C...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate