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Chapter 14-3: A Creative Era

Key Terms/People:
 * Blues: bold musicians of early jazz experimented with this form of African American music
 * Bessie Smith: brought blues to a broader audience
 * Louis Armstrong: New Orleans Jazz musician who adopt some of its unique characteristics
 * Bix Beirderbecke: wove Jazz rhythms into their music
 * Duke Ellington: famous Jazz musicians
 * Harlem Renaissance: a place that flourished with artistic development in the 1920s
 * Paul Robeson: one of the most critically successful actors of the 1920s
 * Rose McClendon: another leading African American actor of the 1920s
 * James Weldon Johnson: active Harlem supporter
 * Ernesy Hemingway: a writer
 * Lost Generation: writers of the era became known as this
 * F, Scott Fitzcerald: a Lost generation writer whose novels chronicled the Jazz age
 * Alfred Stieglitz: helped popularize photography

Key Events: Music The Harlem Renaissance The Lost Generation The Visual Arts
 * early 1900s Jazz emerged in the entertainment district of New Orleans known as Storyville
 * Big brass bands experimenting with the ragtime style of music popularized by Scott Joplin
 * Jazz artist such as Joseph Oliver moved to Chicago bringing Jazz to the North
 * Blues was created by bold musicians of early jazz experimented with this form of African American music
 * Bessie Smith brought blues to a broader audience
 * Louis Armstrong was a New Orleans Jazz musician who adopt some of its unique characteristics
 * Bix Beirderbecke wove Jazz rhythms into their music
 * Duke Ellington was famous Jazz musicians
 * 1920s, African Americans expressed a growing pride in their heritage
 * Harlem renaissance was a place that flourished of artistic development in the 1920s
 * African American theater experienced both critical and increasing popularity
 * Paul Robeson received praise for his title role in Eugene O'Neill's drama Emperor Jones
 * Rose first won fame in 1926 production Deep River, a native opera with Jazz
 * Johnson published a wide variety of works
 * The lost generation was a name for the writers of this era
 * F. Scott Fitzcerald: a Lost generation writer whose novels chronicled the Jazz age
 * Alfred Stieglitz helped popularize photography in the 1920s
 * Spirit in creativity that emerged in the U.S in the 1920s also appeared in the architecture
 * styles like the prairie style was developed by Wright