Songs of the soul: the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1935. (Special Report).(Statistical Data Included)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: February 8, 2002 | Copyright information

HOT NIGHTS and cool jazz ... steamy sidewalks and fancy dressers ... songs of the soul and songs of the body ... the lilt of gentle laughter and the penetrating wail of the blues ...

That was Harlem in the 1920s and early 1930s--a place that vibrated night and day with excitement, promise, glitter, and joy.

If you had visited Harlem in those days, you might have heard bandleader Duke Ellington playing "Take the `A' Train" (the subway to Harlem) at the Cotton Club or Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong shaking up the jazz world with his trumpet playing at Connie's Inn. The place was ...

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