American Studies Projects

Final Project

Perceptions of Black: African American Visual Art and the Black Arts Movement

Hypertexts

• William James,The Varieties of Religious Experience,Chapters 11, 12, 13
• Frederick Lewis Allen,Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties,Chapter 7

Images

The Saturday Evening Post,1938 Cover Art

Jukebox: Popular Music of the Depression Era

"Stormy Weather," Lena Horne "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart," Judy Garland "I Got it Bad (and that Ain't Good)," Duke Ellington featuring Ivie Anderson

Hollywood Musicals

The Jazz Singer, 1927