By now, you should have received a confirmation e-mail from me if I received your paper. If you didn't receive the e-mail, it's because I didn't receive your paper.
Tomorrow's class will have reports by class members first. We'll then view the conclusion to The Public Enemy and discuss the film. Be sure to bring your notes from the other day when we saw the movie. I will be asking you primarily about (1) the film's representation of the 1920s and (2) whether you saw any Code violations (from the handout the other day, available on elearning.wsu.edu).
Here are our readings; I will be playing the songs for you, so you don't need to listen to them ahead of time.
Lewis, introduction to The Harlem Renaissance Reader (xiii-xli)
Joel A. Rogers, "Jazz at Home" HRR 52-57
Sterling Brown, "Ma Rainey" HRR 232-234
Ma Rainey, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and other songs
Bessie Smith, "St. Louis Blues" (song)
Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues" HRR 260-261;
Louis Armstrong, "Weary Blues" (song)
Gwendolyn Bennett, "Song" HRR 221-222
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