Jazz was one of the many types of music that.

             was the most popular during the Harlem Renaissance. The other popular.

             music was the Blues. Blues is unlike jazz. This is because jazz has a more.

             up-beat and blues have a real down-beat. The dances that were popular was.

             known as the Boogie-Woogie, the Turkey Trot, and the Big Apple. Those.

             were just few of the many dances that developed during the Harlem.

             Renaissance.

             "Black writers were dependent on white publishers, but white.

             publishers were sincerely interested in black literature, and they worked.

             closely with black writers and intellectuals to achieve a viable literary.

             movement" (Wintz 162). The only way that black writers could get in the.

             literature business was that they got in with someone who is white. The.

             white people knew that the only way that they could have a booming.

             business is to have black literature. This is because the only literature that.

             could really sell is the black literature. So for the whites to make money,.

             they had to get in with the blacks. This would then work out for both of.

             them.

             The Harlem Renaissance produced a shine of new authors during this.

             time period. The authors knew each other well and they frequently.

             exchanged ideas. The Renaissance writers remain important not just for.

             their own work but because the literary tradition they built would become a.

             platform from which future African-American voices could shout and be.

             heard.

             There were many big authors during the Harlem Renaissance. You.

             still hear some names now. They were Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer,.

             Jessie Redmon Fauset, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman,.

             and Zora Neale Hurston.

             Besides literature and music, there was also art involved in the.

             Harlem Renaissance. In the 1920s, European and white American painters.

             tangled with new ways to express the industrial world that was growing.

             behind them. Many of those painters were influenced by African tribal.