In the 1920’s African American artists, writers, musicians, and performers were part of a great cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. After World War I many African Americans migrated to the North and settled in the city of Harlem, New York. It was during this time that the African American community would not only grow to be a recognized culture, but it would be a time in which the people of the society could …showed first 75 words of 393 total…

…showed last 75 words of 393 total…any composition. But since it wasn’t 1835 and it was 1920 African Americans knew it was also time to change the music style. Out with the Spirituals and in with the blues. For the most part the type of music remained the same, except this time it really wasn’t about God, it focused more on suffering, the loss of love, finding love, being strong, and being down right human, blues really enveloped the human condition.