Black Music

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing to make poets black and bid him sing" Countee Cullen. To change the faces of artists of the voice, unheard, and stories of truth - untold was the open goal of the Harlem Renaissance. To breathe life into black culture, to lead in a direction, the movement, the influence, a black man and woman's broaden
creativity, and the main insight, revolution.
Following the civil war of 1961-1865 in the United States of America, what became known as the "Great Migration"(the movement of southern blacks to the north.) southerners settled in Harlem, upper town Manhattan. When African Americans settled there they brought their culture, history, and talents. Their culture and history was
forgotten and their talents was very much overlooked tremendously in that time period, for that, then any minority group was looked upon having "no sense of agreeable structure and style."
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