Harlem RenaissanceBackground to the Harlem Renaissance, Great MigrationOne of the most important intellectual and artistic trends in 20th-century American history, the Harlem Renaissance had a impacting art, literature, and music in a way that forever altered the American cultural landscape. The Harlem Renaissance was a 1920s movement through which African American writers, artists, musicians, and thinkers sought to embrace freed black people still living in poverty as sharecroppers and facing discrimination and prejudice, to the heritage and culture of American life. The Great Migration, or the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from rural areas of the South to cities in the North, Midwest, and West beginning in 1916 and even after World War II, had a enormous impact on urban life in the United States. Driven from their homes by unsatisfactory economic opportunities, harsh segregationist laws, and persistent racism in the South, many blacks headed north, where they took advantage of the need for industrial workers that arose for the first time during the First World War. discovered that northern blacks had excelled as professionals. Beginning in the late 1880s, blacks began to establish themselves as professionals in many fields such as scientific research and the arts. In the 1900s, many became scholars, scientists, artists, poets, and musicians. Some of these most successful and renowned scholars lived in or emigrated to Harlem, New York. Harlem was the central hub of black talent and culture, there was a desire among its residents to preserve, defend and promote the talents and value of African American culture. Being introduced to this environment gave southern blacks aspiration...... middle of paper ...... was a sense of nationalism and pride that followed the philosophy of the NAACP and the ideas of WEB DuBois, Langston Hughes and Alain Locke. From the Great Migration came the Harlem Renaissance and the arrival of the “New Negro,” a term representative of the renewed intellectual curiosity and pride in the culture and history of African Americans. The birth of the black musician The rise of the black musician, gaining popularity and prestige among white crowds, still second-class citizens. The kind of music they played, how it influenced other existing genres. Talk about other genres and what they sounded like, include details about the musiciansTalk about white musicians borrowing from black musicians to gain popularity, how this created rock and roll (check Wikipedia), be-bop, playing with its back to the audience, white music was seen by a wider audience.