In this song Armstrong has a very mellow and soothing tone. He talks about the pretty blue skies and people greeting each other with love.
Claude Mckay
Claude Mckay is talking about lynching and riots.
Duke Ellington
There is a deep Socratic wisdom behind this song. "A life without swing, is not worth living."
Jacob Lawrence
Lawrence is showing the migration that took place during the Harlem Renaissance
Aaron Douglas
In this painting Douglas is showing enslaved African Americans looking for freedom in boats at shore.
Louis Armstrong
In this song Armstrong tells of a happy place where there is clear blue skies and people loving and greeting one another.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
