1920's

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hottest thing in town. People would gather downtown at nightclubs to listen and dance to black entertainment. There were nightclubs that opened about midnight for those who were ready for a good time. This is what they called the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was the African American culture.


Harlem gave Americans a more clear conscience of the daily lives of the African American citizens and horror or racism. The blacks developed the style of jazz music in New Orleans. Jazz had roots in different music traditions of the slave spirituals of the blues. The music expressed the way they felt and let them speak what was on their minds. (American Voice)
Louis Armstrong was a famous African American Jazz musician called “Satchma.” He had been in many bands like the Creole Jazz Band, Kid Ory's, and many more. Around 1925 he had his own band called Louis Armstrong and his Stompers. By 1929 Louis had become a very big star. On July 6th 1971 the world's greatest Jazz musician died in his sleep at his home in Queens, New York. (RedHotJazz.com)
Bessie Smith was the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s. Bessie started out as a street musician in Chattanooga. In 1912 she joined a traveling show as a dancer and singer. By the early 1920s she was one of the most popular Blues singers. In 1923 she recorded on Columbia with Clarence Williams. The record sold more than 750,000 copies that year. Throughout the 1920s she recorded with many of the popular Jazz musicians. Bessie Smith was one of the biggest stars of the 1920s. Her life came to an end in a car accident in 1937. She was driving with Richard Morgan in Mississippi when their car rear-ended a truck and rolled over crushing her arms and ribs. She had bled to death by the time she reached the hospital.


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Along with the new style of music came...