ARTS OF THE ART/ ENGL/MUS 432

CO-INSTRUCTORS Julia Balén Ted Lucas Office Hours: T 4-5:00 and by appointment Office hours: Bell Tower West 1108 (1809); 437-8435 Bell Tower West [email protected] [email protected]

Course Description: This course examines the dramatic upsurge of creativity in art, music and literature resulting from social and political undercurrents in the African American cultural revolution in New York during the 1920s. Historical geneses and subsequent artistic legacies will be also be explored.

Course Text: Venetria K. Patton and Maureen Honey, Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology (Rutgers, 2001)

There will also be some additional readings available online through Blackboard.

General Education: Fulfills: GenEd: C1, C2 and Interdisciplinary

Course Requirements: This course centers on the reading and discussion of the assigned texts, listening to music, and viewing and discussing all in relationship to each other; therefore keeping up with the reading, attending, and actively participating in class are vital elements of participation in this course. Missing two class sessions constitutes grounds for failure.

Writing is also an important element; there will be weekly response papers reflecting on and synthesizing the assigned readings with art and music. All requirements must be met on the dates due. All due dates are listed in the syllabus.

Course information may also be accessed through Blackboard: http://csuci.blackboard.com

Subject to Change This syllabus and schedule are subject to change. If you are absent from class, it is your responsibility to check on announcements or changes made while you were absent. Additional readings for any given week may be posted a week in advance.

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Course Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• Describe and analyze the connections between the art, history, popular culture and other aspects of the Harlem Renaissance. • Describe and analyze subjective responses and objective reasoning in the assessment of images that permeate novels, music, and art of the period. • Critically examine from various perspectives how ideologies, iconography, and symbolism interact and define cultural identities. • Reflect in written and oral form on the various themes in novels, film and art of the period. • Critically analyze the meaning of images within their original context as well as defined by literary, artistic and musical practices. • Develop new ways of looking and thinking about images, texts, and music. • Formulate an interpretative level of analysis based on a comprehensive understanding of performance arts, visual arts, and literature. • Critically examine in comparative ways the formation of meanings in novels, music, and art. • Decipher symbols, cultural and artistic codes in art, music, and literature. • Apply the knowledge and information in papers and presentations

Grading:

Class participation: 25% Weekly Reading Response papers: 25%

These short papers will articulate your response to the assigned readings. The idea is to attempt to find common threads among the readings, music, and art. It is an exercise in the process of synthesizing information. These texts will be submitted on a weekly basis. They will be peer reviewed and then graded. One or two may serve as a foundation for the final essay.

Midterm/Quizzes 15% There will be a formal midterm and informal quizzes, as needed, throughout the semester.

Final Research Paper 12-15pp Research proposal 5% Draft 10% Final Paper 20%

CSUCI policy on academic dishonesty: All work that students submit as their own work must, in fact, be their own work. For example, if a paper presents ideas of others, it must clearly indicate the source. Word- for-word language taken from other sources – books, papers, web sites, people, etc. –

2 ARTS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE ART/ ENGL/MUS 432 must be placed in quotation marks and the source identified. Likewise, work on tests and exams must be the student’s own work, not copied or taken from other students’ work, and students must comply with instructions regarding use of books, notes, and other materials.

In accordance with the CSU Channel Islands policy on academic dishonesty, students in this course who submit the work of others as their own (plagiarize), cheat on tests and examinations, help other students cheat or plagiarize, or commit other acts of academic dishonesty will receive appropriate academic penalties, up to and including failing the course.

Papers with plagiarized ideas or language will be graded “F” and must be rewritten with proper use of quotations and referencing. The grade of “F” will remain the recorded grade on that assignment.

Plagiarism or cheating on tests and exams will result in an “F” on the test or exam, very likely resulting in a lower or possibly a failing final grade in the course. To complete course requirements, students must retake the test or exam during the instructor’s scheduled office hours.

In cases where the cheating or plagiarism was premeditated or planned, students may receive an “F” for the course.

Students are encouraged to consult with the instructor on when and how to document sources if they have questions about what might constitute an act of plagiarism or cheating.

Classroom Behavior: The classroom is a special environment in which students and faculty come together to promote learning and growth. It is essential to this learning environment that respect for the rights of others seeking to learn, respect for the professionalism of the instructor, and the general goals of academic freedom are maintained. Differences of viewpoint or concerns should be expressed in terms which are supportive of the learning process, creating an environment in which students and faculty may learn to reason with clarity and compassion, to share of themselves without losing their identities, and to develop an understanding of the community in which they live. Student conduct which disrupts the learning process shall not be tolerated and may lead to disciplinary action and/or removal from class.

DISABILITIES STATEMENT: Students who have disabilities or special needs and require accommodations in order to have equal access to classrooms must register with the designated staff member in Student Affairs in order for us to better accommodate special needs. Students will be required to provide documentation of a disability when accommodations are requested.

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For more information, contact Terri Goldstein, Disability Accommodation Coordinator, ext. 8528.

9/1 Introduction 9/8 1917-1920 The musical background—African music, ragtime and the blues Bessie Smith (1895-1937) and Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Documentary film: The Harlem Renaissance 1917 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) Poem: Violets, 147 Claude McKay (1889-1948) Poem: The Harlem Dancer 272 Music: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, “Dixie Jazz Band One-Step” 1918 (1877-1966) Poem: , 153 Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. (1895-1919) Poems: And What Shall You Say?; Is it Because I Am Black? Sonnet to Negro Soldiers; Rain Music, 381-3 1919 Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) Story: Mary Elizabeth, 237 Claude McKay Poems: If We Must Die, 273 1920 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen, 'The New Negro--What is He?', 7 Marcus Garvey, 'Africa for the Africans,' 83 Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. Play: On the Fields of France, 384 Total pages 23 9/15 1920-1921 1920 Music: The blues—form, structure, content, impact on music Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958) Play: Rachel, 189 1921 Jessie Redmon Fauset 'Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress' 75 Alice Dunbar-Nelson Poem: You! Inez! 147 Claude McKay Poems: Africa; America, 275 (1902-1967) Poem: The Negro Speaks of Rivers, 460 Total pages 46 9/22 1922-24 1922 James Weldon Johnson Poems: The Creation; Mother Night; The White Witch 140- 2 Georgia Douglas Johnson Poems: Motherhood; The Octoroon 154 Fenton Johnson (1888-1958) Poems The Banjo Player; The Scarlet Woman; Tired 268-70 (1891-1960) Poem: Passion 324 Langston Hughes Poem: Danse Africaine 460 1923 Ruth Whitehead Whaley, 'Closed Doors: A Study in Segregation' 17 Angelina Weld Grimke Poems El Beso; The Black Finger; The Want of You, 171- 2 (1882-1975) Poem: White Things, 228 (1894-1967) Poem: Portrait in Georgia, 374 Story: Blood-Burning Moon, 375 Langston Hughes Poem: Jazzonia, 461 Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981) Poems: Heritage; To a Dark Girl, 508 1924 Angelina Weld Grimke Poem: Dusk 172 Jessie Redmon Fauset Poem: Here's April ,234

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Music: King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, “Dippermouth Blues” Total pages 20 9/29 1925 and ART Guest Presentation 1925 Music: Louis Armstrong. Documentary film, Satchmo (60 min.) William Stanley Braithwaite, 'The Negro in American Literature,' 10 James Weldon Johnson, 'Harlem: The Culture Capital,' 21 Brenda Ray Moryck, 'A Point of View: An Opportunity Dinner Reaction,' 28 W.A. Domingo, 'Gift of the Black Tropics' 90 Langston Hughes Poems: Song to a Negro Wash-Woman, 461; The Weary Blues, 464 Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) Poem Shadow 571; Story Sahdji 573 Helene Johnson (1907-1995) Poem My Race 601 Total pages 30 10/6 1925 1925 Music: Louis Armstrong. The “Hot Five” and “Hot Seven” recordings Elise Johnson McDougald, 'The Task of Negro Womanhood,' 103 Marita O. Bonner, 'On Being Young--a Woman--and Colored,' 109 Alain Locke, 'The Legacy of Ancestral Arts,' 121 Joel A. Rogers, 'Jazz at Home,' 127 Georgia Douglas Johnson Poems: Escape; The Black Runner 155-6 Claude McKay Poems: Like a Strong Tree; The Tropics in New York, 277 Zora Neale Hurston Story: Spunk, 325 Total pages 30 10/13 1926 and review 1926 Music: Fletcher Henderson and the beginning of the Big Bands Amy Jacques Garvey, On Langston Hughes: I am a Negro--and Beautiful, 45 W.E.B. Du Bois, 'Criteria of Negro Art,' 47 Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, 40; Poems: To Midnight Nan at Leroy's; Lullaby; Listen Here Blues; Bound No'th Blues, 465-8 Jessie Redmon Fauset Poem: Words! Words! 235 Zora Neale Hurston Play: Color Struck, 338 Gwendolyn B. Bennett Poem: Hatred, 509; Story: Wedding Day, 511 (1902-1934) Poems The Last Citadel; God's Edict 521 Story: Cordelia the Crude, 523 Richard Bruce Nugent Story: Smoke, Lilies, and Jade! 574 Helene Johnson Poems; Magalu; The Road; Mother, 601-2 Total pages 38 10/20 Midterm and Research Proposals 10/27 1926-7 1926- Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club Orchestra, “East St.Louis Toddle-Oo” 1927 Rudolph Fisher, 'The Caucasion Storms Harlem,' 96 Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 'Woman's Most Serious Problem,' 113 Dorothy West (1907-1998) Story: The Typewriter, 591 Anne Spencer Poem: Letter to My Sister, 229 Jessie Redmon Fauset Poems Touché; La Vie C'Est la Vie, 235-6 Effie Lee Newsome (1885-1979) Poem: The Bird in the Cage, 244

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Langston Hughes Poem: Song for a Dark Girl, 469 (1902-1973) Poems: Golgotha is a Mountain; Length of Moon; Nocturne at Bethesda; A Black Man Talks of Reaping; God Give to Me; The Return, 539-45 (1903-1946) Poems: Colored Blues Singer; To Certain Critics; From the Dark Tower, 559-62 Helene Johnson Poems: Bottled; Poem; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem, 602-5 Total pages 33 11/3 Julia at conference; Ted and music 11/10 1927-8 Research Proposals Due 1927- Music: Louis Armstrong, “West End Blues” 1928 Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981) The American Negro Paints, 134 Poem: Fantasy, 510; Story Tokens, 516 James Weldon Johnson Poem: My City, 144 Alice Dunbar-Nelson Poem: I Sit and Sew, 148 Angelina Weld Grimke Poems: A Mona Lisa: Tenebris 173-4 Georgia Douglas Johnson Poems: Wishes; I Want to Die While you Love Me, 156-8 Play: Plumes: A Folk Tragedy, 163 Mae V. Cowdery (1909-1953) Poem: Dusk, 607 Richard Bruce Nugent Play: Sahdji, an African Ballet, 583 Total pages 25 11/17 1929-31 1929 Music: The Stock Market Crash and its effect on music style Alice Dunbar-Nelson Poems The Proletariat Speaks, 148 Story: His Great Career (unpublished), 150 Anne Spencer Poem: Grapes: Still-Life; Black Man o' Min, 230-1 Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960) Poem: Black Baby; Black Faces, 316 Wallace Thurman, Stories: Emma Lou, 526 Countee Cullen (1903-1946) Poem: Little Sonnet to Little Friends, 562 1930 Anita Scott Coleman (1890-1960) Poem: Negro Laughter, 317 (1891-1964) Story: Sanctuary, 353 Eulalie Spence (1894-1964) Play: Undertow, 360 Total pages 34 11/24 Research week/Film 12/1 1932-34 Paper Version 1 DUE 1932 Music: The Big Bands and dance craze. Count Basie and his Orchestra Claude McKay Story: Mattie and Her Sweetman, 278 Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) Poems: Ma Rainey Sam Smiley; Southern Road; Strong Men, 451-6 1933 Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) Story: Miss Cynthie 400 Arna Bontemps Story: A Summer Tragedy, 546 1934 Langston Hughes Story: The Blues I'm Playing, 469 Dorothy West Story: The Black Dress, 597 Total pages 38

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12/8 1935-37 1935 Music: Billie Holiday. Documentary film, Lady Day (60 min.) Zora Neale Hurston, 'Characteristics of Negro Expression,' 61 Langston Hughes Play: Mulatto: A Tragedy of the Deep South, 476 1936 Marion Vera Cuthbert, 'Problems Facing Negro Young Women' 116 Mae V. Cowdery (1909-1953) Poems: Heritage, Insatiate; Poem ... for a Lover, 608-9 1937 Richard Wright, 'Blueprint for Negro Writing' 52 Georgia Douglas Johnson Story: Tramp Love, 159 Total pages 32 12/15 Presentations and Final papers due

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