You will prepare and submit a term paper on The Apollo Theater: Artistic Pantheon of the Harlem Renaissance. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on The Apollo Theater: Artistic Pantheon of the Harlem Renaissance. Your paper should be a minimum of 1500 words in length. Fearing more reprisals, thousands of blacks began moving north, a large proportion to New York. With them came many artists, visual, literary and musical, the latter bringing with them the gospel traditions that eventually evolved into the soul, jazz and rhythm and blues music which would contribute heavily to the talent that found its way to the Apollo Theater. Other non-musical artists, however, might not have thought of the Apollo and its opportunities for popular black musical artists as necessarily positive. Wintz and Finkelman write:

“The authors of the Harlem Renaissance shared the goal of developing new forms of artistic representation of the African American experience. At the same time, they manifested a wide range of aesthetic principles and radically diverse concepts of blackness. The Harlem Renaissance meant different things to different people. At the same time, they [visual and literary artists] interpreted and represented this uniqueness in many, sometimes conflicting ways, embodying the tensions and contradictions of, their American context” (64-65).

Blacks did not have it easy at first. Although many worked in the clubs as musicians they were not allowed to attend performances.