Langston Hughes & the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Literature 215
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In which John Green teaches you about the poetry of Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was a poet and playwright in the first half of the 20th century, and he was involved in the Harlem Renaissance, which was a cultural movement among African Americans of the time that produced all kinds of great works in literature, poetry, painting, sculpture, music, and other areas. The Harlem Renaissance mainly happened in Harlem, the traditionally black neighborhood in upper Manhattan in New York City. Langston Hughes was primarily known as a poet, but he was involved deeply in the movement itself as well. John will teach you a bit about Hughes's background, and he'll examine a few of his best known poems.
Esquire All-American Jazz Concert - January 18, 1944 (Full Concert)
Louis Armstrong (tp, vo)
Roy Eldridge (tp)
Jack Teagarden (tb, vo)
Barney Bigard; Benny Goodman (cl)
Coleman Hawkins (ts)
Art Tatum; Teddy Wilson (p)
Al Casey (g)
Oscar Pettiford (b)
Sid Catlett (d)
Lionel Hampton (vibes)
Red Norvo (xylophone)
Billie Holiday; Mildred Bailey (voc)
Announcements- Leonard Feather; Michael Roy (Spotlight Bands Broadcast)
Recorded at The Metropolitan Opera House, January 18, 1944.
This was the first jazz concert at the Met and it probably wouldn't have happened if it hadn't been a War Bond Drive. (Admission was paid in War Bonds.) NY Times' article headline:
3,600 BUY BONDS AT JAZZ SESSION; $650,000 Raised for War by Sale of Tickets to Concert of Esquire's Band.
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Esquire Blues 0:00
Mop Mop 5:07
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 9:58
I Love My Man 13:45
I Can't Give You Anything But Love 18:01
I Got A Right To Sing The Blues 21:43
Sweet Lorraine 25:37
I Got Rhythm 29:14
The Blues 38:23
We All Drink ''Coca-Cola'' 41:33
Esquire Bounce 42:59
Rockin' Chair 44:59
Basin Street Blues 48:31
I'll Get By 53:15
Tea For Two 54:59
Back O' Town Blues 59:20
Muskrat Ramble 1:02:57
Buck Jumpin´ 1:05:43
Stompin' At The Savoy 1:08:43
For Bass Faces Only 1:12:08
My Ideal 1:17:40
Rose Room 1:21:07
I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling 1:26:42
More Than You Know 1:30:06
Squeeze Me 1:34:05
Honeysuckle Rose 1:36:55
Flying Home 1:38:47
Jamming The Vibes 1:51:14
Star Spangled Banner 1:55:51
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National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony
On Saturday, September 24, 2016, the public witnessed the outdoor dedication ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The Journey - A Story of The Israelites - In Saint Louis 6/18/2016
In celebration of Juneteenth and the 1 year anniversary of the opening of the EyeSeeMe African American Children's Bookstore, The Journey, a story of the Israelites, is debuting in Saint Louis on Saturday, June 18th as Harris Stowe State University. The Journey is a unique theatrical musical filled with African rhythms, soulful negro spirituals, gospel music, poetry and dance perfectly woven together in portraying the story and culture of a people dispersed from the Promise Land, through the Sahara to Western Africa, and then to the Americas.
The perfect Juneteenth story, which highlight a people who found their way through the hallways of time enduring unimaginable experiences, and yet still triumphing as survivors. Come and experience the passage of history; you will laugh and you will cry. This is a show you will not want to miss!
Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Juneteenth today, celebrates African American freedom and achievement, while encouraging continuous self-development and respect for all cultures.
The Journey has been performed to sold-out crowds in Harlem, New York, Toronto, Canada, and London, England. Bring the whole family and experience the passage of history; you will laugh and you will cry. You will be amazed. This is a show you will not want to miss! Appropriate for all ages.
First time in Saint Louis
Date: June 18, 2016
Time: 7:00 pm
EMERSON PERFORMANCE CENTER at Harris-Stowe State University
Bank of America Theater
3101 Laclede Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63103
Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door; Children: $10 in advance, $15 at the door ; Group Discounts Availble
Proceeds will help the EyeSeeMe Foundation continue its work towards increasing early childhood literacy, promoting black history, and providing books which highlight positive black images for all children.
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Historian Karen Wilson on Storytelling
Karen Wilson is a singer-storyteller, scholar and teaching artist who was born in Harlem, New York. Karen sings music across the spectrum of the African Diaspora in the United States including spirituals, calls, hollers, jazz, blues and rhythm and blues. She earned her Ph.D. in history at UC Riverside, where she is a lecturer and the assistant director of UC Riversides Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts. This video was part of the UCTV series State of Minds.
A Conversation with Nas and Michael Eric Dyson
Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson and iconic rapper Nas analyzed the current state of hip-hop during a conversation in Gaston Hall.
The Band of Gideon Fisk University Jubilee Quartette Edison Amberol 983
The Fisk University Jubilee Quartette sings The Band of Gideon on Edison Amberol 983, issued in 1912.
With singers changing often, this offshoot of the Fisk Jubilee Singers has had a long recording history, making records even into modern times. Fisk University was established in Nashville, Tennessee, immediately after the Civil War. George L. White, a white Northerner from Cardiz, New York, was the school's treasurer as well as the first to instruct Fisk students in vocal music. According to J.B.T. Marsh's account in The Story of the Jubilee Singers (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1898), the first public concert was given in the spring of 1867.
Standard concert fare was mixed with spirituals and plantation songs, and audiences were enthusiastic hearing spirituals concertized for the first time. Within a few years the Fisk Jubilee Singers attracted international attention.
The original company disbanded, but another Jubilee Singers was formed by Prof. John Wesley Work, Sr. (1873-1925), an instructor of Latin and history at Fisk until the turn of the century. He led the singers on tour throughout the United States until 1916. With his brother Frederick, John Wesley Work published in 1901 New Jubilee Songs and then in 1907 Folk Songs of the American Negro, two influential volumes.
An African-American quartet consisting of singers with the Jubilee Singers began recording in late 1909, making its debut with 1) Little David, Play on Yo' Harp; 2) Shout All Over God's Heaven backed by I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray (Victor 16448).
Victor labels in the popular series do not normally identify members of its several recording quartets, but on early pressings of Victor 35097, a twelve-inch record, members of the Fisk University Jubilee Quartet are listed as J.W. Work--N.W. Rider--J.A. Myers--Alfred G. King. The same names are given on ten-inch Victor 16448, on both early and late pressings. Later pressings of Victor 35097 do not identify members but add on the label unaccompanied. On the twelve-inch disc the quartet performs Stephen Foster's Old Black Joe, identified as Negro Song.
Labels on Victor 16487--There is a Balm in Gilead and The Great Campmeeting--state Negro Male Quartet unaccompanied to the right of the spindle hole. Labels on Victor 16864--Band of Gideon and My Soul is a Witness--state Negro Quartet.
The March 1912 issue of Edison Phonograph Monthly announced the release of nine wax Amberol cylinders featuring the quartet:
978: (a) Peter on the Sea; (b) The Ole Ark
979: (a) Shout All Over God's Heaven; (b) Little David
980: Roll, Jordan, Roll
981: Crossing the Bar
982: All Over This World
983: The Band of Gideon
984: My Soul is a Witness
985: The Great Campmeeting
986: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
After the introduction in 1912 of new Edison products--Blue Amberol cylinders as well as Diamond Discs--dealers did not carry the quartet's wax Amberols for long. Dealers could special order wax Amberols until January 5, 1914 but they naturally pushed the new celluloid Blue Amberols instead of the old wax Amberol product. In the 1920s all titles were reissued as Blue Amberols with the exception of My Soul is a Witness. The first Blue Amberol cylinder was All Over This World (4045), issued for sixty cents in August 1920. A performance by the quartet was issued on a Blue Amberol cylinder as late as November 1927: The Band Of Gideon (5442).
Jim Walsh wrote in the October 1962 issue of Hobbies, A few Jubilee Quartet records were issued on Edison Diamond Discs under the name of the Southern Four. Diamond Discs 50885 (issued in 1921) and 51364 (issued in 1924) feature the Southern Four.
The March 1912 issue of Edison Phonograph Monthly identifies the singers as John W. Work (first tenor); Roland W. Hayes (second tenor); Leon P. O'Hara (first bass) and Charles Wesley (second bass). With the exception of leader Work, all quartet members who sang for Victor a few years earlier had been replaced. Roland Hayes (1887 - 1977) would later enjoy success as a concert performer and recording artist. The Edison Amberols are his earliest recordings.
The group began recording for Columbia in 1915. It is called the Fisk University Male Quartette on some labels, such as Columbia A2803, and the Fiske [sic] University Male Singers in the 1921 Columbia catalog (it includes a photograph of four singers), which is corrected to Fisk University Male Singers in the 1922 catalog.
Harlem Heroes Talk
Celebrate Black History Month with Dr. Walter Evans, noted collector of African American art and artifacts. Evans shares his insights about the contributions to American culture by such icons as W.E.B. DuBois, Bessie Smith, Paul Robeson, Ella Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and more who are captured in Carl Van Vechten’s portraits.
Boiler Nation: Black Cultural Center
Purdue University's Black Cultural Center is a vibrant element of University life, offering a wealth of programs and services for the entire campus community. We bring together the wonderful diversity of the Purdue family by nurturing and presenting the rich heritage of the African American experience through art, history and cultural understanding. The center sponsors outstanding student performing arts ensembles in dance drama, choral music and creative writing.
Marian Anderson - Go Down Moses (Let My People Go) (1937)
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Marian Anderson - Go Down Moses (Let My People Go) (1937)
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an American singer of classical music and spirituals. Music critic Alan Blyth said: Her voice was a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty. She performed in concert and recital in major music venues and with famous orchestras throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965. Although offered roles with many important European opera companies, Anderson declined, as she had no training in acting. She preferred to perform in concert and recital only. She did, however, perform opera arias within her concerts and recitals. She made many recordings that reflected her broad performance repertoire, which ranged from concert literature to lieder to opera to traditional American songs and spirituals. Between 1940 and 1965 the German-American pianist Franz Rupp was her permanent accompanist.
Anderson became an important figure in the struggle for black artists to overcome racial prejudice in the United States during the mid-twentieth century. In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused permission for Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. The incident placed Anderson into the spotlight of the international community on a level unusual for a classical musician. With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in the capital. She sang before an integrated crowd of more than 75,000 people and a radio audience in the millions.
Anderson continued to break barriers for black artists in the United States, becoming the first black person, American or otherwise, to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 1955. Her performance as Ulrica in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at the Met was the only time she sang an opera role on stage.
Anderson worked for several years as a delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Committee and as a goodwill ambassadress for the United States Department of State, giving concerts all over the world. She participated in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, singing at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Anderson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, the Congressional Gold Medal in 1977, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1978, the National Medal of Arts in 1986, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991.
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Coral gospel na Times Square Church, NY
Coral gospel na Times Square Church, New York. Fevereiro 2015
Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance
Jean E. Snyder lectures on Harry T. Burleigh's leading role in American music and culture during the 20th century, through his work as a composer, arranger and performer.
Speaker Biography: Author and ethnomusicologist Jean E. Snyder lectures on American musician Harry T. Burleigh, who is recognized as the first African-American to produce a major body of art songs. Part of Snyder's research was conducted in the Library's Performing Arts Reading Room.
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The 13th Amendment? Rehearsal - Wade in the Water
The 13th Amendment?
The mission of the 13th Amendment? is to question, engage, explore and encourage all forms of free expression that lead to telling of the personal narrative. The 13th Amendment sources personal stories, enSlave(d) Narratives, poetry, visual art, Negro Spirituals,the roots and the fruits of the Blues and Jazz.
In addition to performances, the 13th Amendment also conducts workshops exploring the concept of FREEDOM through the historical journey of the African American and their creative contribution to American Culture. Workshops tailored to groups of all ages and sizes. All of the workshops below can be done as a 1 time event, or as a series of multiple visits with the selected group.
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Race in America - Part 1 of 2 | Black America
In this two part special, Carol Jenkins discusses race in America with Dr. Kevin Nadal, Author of Microaggressions & Traumatic Stress, Tinabeth Piña, Host of Urban U and Laura Flanders, Host of The Laura Flanders Show.
Taped: 11/21/18
Black America is an in-depth conversation that explores what it means to be Black in America. The show profiles Black activists, academics, business leaders, sports figures, elected officials, artists and writers to gauge this experience in a time of both turbulence and breakthroughs.
Black America is hosted by Carol Jenkins, Emmy award winning New York City journalist, and founding president of The Women's Media Center
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Adolphus Hailstork Tribute for the 2012 Attucks Theatre Honors by Monty Ross
Composer and College Professor Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork, born April 17th, 1941 in Rochester, New York, began his musical studies with piano lessons as a child. He studied at Howard University (B.Mus., 1963) and Manhattan School of Music (B.Mus. in Composition, 1965, M.Mus. in Composition, 1966), spending the summer of 1963 at the American Institute at Fontainebleau, France. After service in the U.S. Armed Forces in Germany (1966-1968), he returned to the United States and pursued his doctorate degree at Michigan State University in Lansing (Ph.D., 1971). He also attended the Electronic Music Institution at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire (summer, 1972) and the Seminar on Contemporary Music (summer, 1978) at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His principal teachers were H. Owen Reed (Michigan State University), Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond (Manhattan School of Music), Mark Fax (Howard University) and Nadia Boulanger (American Institute at Fontainebleau).
Steve Buckingham part 2 Interview by Monk Rowe - 9/24/2019 - Clinton, NY
In part 2 of his interview, producer Steve Buckingham talks about his collaboration with Dolly Parton, his reissue work on the Spirituals to Swing concert, and the characteristics inherent in a hit recording.
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82 year old grandmother kicked off train for singing gospel songs
How would you feel if your grandmother was dragged off a train for singing Amazing Grace? well that's exactly what happened to 82 year old, Emma Anderson was kicked off of the Miami Metro Train after she was reprimanded for singing gospel music but refused to stop. Take a look at footage!
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Songs from Slavery
Latino students recount the history of slavery in the United States and the importance of songs as a way for slaves to communicate.
Introduction to the Exhibition: Outliers and American Vanguard Art
5 Blind Boys of Mississippi Lord, You've Been Good To Me 1965 (Reelin' In The Years Archives)
Here are the legendary gospel pioneers The 5 Blind Boys Of Mississippi on a European television program from 1965. This song is an excerpt from a 25-minute performance. The Reelin' In The Years Archive contains hours of classic gospel artists including Mahalia Jackson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Staple Singers, Andre Crouch, The Voices Of East Harlem, James Cleveland, Marion Williams, and even some more contemporary gospel artists like Mylon LeFevre, Amy Grant, and Chris Christian.
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