Monday, May 26, 2008

Historical backdrop for harlem Renaissance

Imagine yourself partaking in an orgy. You are exposed , and everyone views you as beautiful. No matter how you look, to them whatever you got is whatever they want. Now in this orgy replace the sexually arousing drugs with poetry and jazz. The moans you hear are no longer the moans of people but the deep inner passion released in the form of novels and artwork. Everything that touches you turns out to be a steamy coating of “black is beautiful”. This is the Harlem Renaissance.
Every piece of art composed during the Harlem Renaissance was viewed as sheer magnificence due to the inferno that burned in all the writers’ bowels that feed a furnace of desire to show what the black community posses. Every poem, novel, notes of a jazz band, and visual piece of art radiated a purpose.
The main element that composed this renaissance would be the transferring of energy devoted to making gripes on the front porch that are viewed as a nuisance to making arts that people acknowledge. The invigoration released from the knowledge that there is a place for the African American to be an African fueled this art production. Harlem became the utopia of black freedom and expression.

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