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- author of “Weary Blues,” which describes listening to a blues singer in a Harlem club; many of his poems were inspired by the jazz rhythms he heard in the clubs where he was a busboy and dishwasher
- French philosopher who argued that "existence precedes essence," meaning that humans must define who they are through their acts; existentialist who believed that it is the struggle with life that defines us and that there is no meaning to existence and no eternal truth to discover.
- term used to describe the collision of art, literary, and musical styles and forms that followed, and often deviated from, those of modernism; works of this style often have multiple meanings and are open to interpretation
- existentialist play that includes a scene in which “a Valet greets Monsieur Garcin as he enters the room that will be his eternal hell”
- beginning in the early 1960s, this art style represented reality in terms of the media—advertising, television, comic strips—imagery of mass culture and consumerism
- enjoyed a five-year engagement at Harlem’s Cotton Club and performed It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) to introduce the term “swing” to jazz culture
- Pop artist associated with a series of paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans
- Surrealist artist expelled from a fine arts academy for refusing to take his final exam, claiming he knew more than the professor who was to eamine him; practiced what he called „paranoiac critical method“ that was a brand of self-hypnosis allowing him to hallucinate freely
- artist associated with large-scale paintings that feature “monochromatic bands of hazy, semi-transparent color,” as seen in Green on Blue
- = school of thought based on the idea that humans must define their own essence (who they are) through their acts/what they do.; denies the existence of any eternal truth for us to discover; postulates that the only true certainty is death.
- trumpeter that formed two studio bands, The Hot Five and The Hot Seven, and recorded Hotter Than That, which features “scat”
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- multimedia event in which artist and audience participated as equal partners
- general who led the forces that defeated the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War (that continued from 1936 to 1939), and then ruled Spain in a totalitarian manner until 1975
- led Italian terrorist squads (called Black Shirts), gained dictatorial powers, and declared himself Il Duce
- musical genre in which the trumpet carries the main melody, the clarinet plays off it with a higher countermelody, and the trombone plays a simpler, lower tune
- art that sought the depiction of a mental landscape where the canvas becomes an arena in which to act and is no longer a picture but an event.
- During the 1960s, this Alabama city was considered the center of the civil rights movement; where in April 1963 Martin Luther King, Jr. was jailed for leading a march of 50 people in defiance of a court order banning civil rights marches in the city
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