How did the popular dance boost the economy for America during the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 1

The Harlem Resaissance was a period of creativity among Black artists, writers, musicians, orators, dramatists, and entertainers and was centered in Harlem in New York. The term renaissance was used because the movement built on the heritage of black Americans. More books were published by black authors during the 1920s than in any previous decade in American history. At the end of World War I, Harlem also contained the largest black urban population in the world and quickly became the black cultural center, attracting immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the British West Indies, and elsewhere, bringing with them their languages, religions, foods, music and literature. Music during the Harlem Renaissance ranged from jazz to rhumbas, hymns to parlor ragtime, and from spirituals to chamber quartets. In the field of popular music, the pianist Jelly Roll Morton and W.C. Handy, called the "Father of the Blues" all added to America's rich music. Duke Ellington brought his first orchestra, the Washingtonians, to Harlem and Broadway, and from that time on jazz has been on the upswing. Charlie Parker and others brought the bop influence to bear on what became modern jazz. Bandleader Count Basie helped to popularize the big band movement in the 1930s and 1940s.

Answer 2

When I think of Harlem, I think of chicken and waffles.