1920s Culture

Roaring 20s Popular Culture More $$$    more leisure time Sports stars Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey Hollywood Charlie Chaplin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79i84xYelZI1927 “talking picture” Radio shows & music Politics Jazz Fostered a sense of a shared national experience that helped unify the nation

Roaring 20s Harlem Renaissance Epicenter of African artistic expression Claude Mckay – ‘defiance and bitterness towards racism’ Langston Hughes- most famous today Zora Neal Hurston- featured women

Roaring 20s Jazz Louis Armstrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrzKBF6gDU Influenced by Dixieland music & ragtime with its ragged rhythms & syncopated melodies “Everything, and I repeat everything had to swing. And that was just it, those cats really had it; they had that soul. And you know you just can’t play some of this music without soul. Soul is very important.” Duke Ellington

Roaring 20s Bessie Smith Paul Robeson Blues A soulful style of music that evolved from African American spirituals Unfulfilled love, poverty, & oppression “Down Hearted Blues” Paul Robeson Won acclaim for acting Shuffle Along (1921) Harlem Renaissance succeeded in bringing international fame to African Americans & sparked political transformation in the U.S.

Roaring 20s African American Politics Marcus Garvey “Negro Nationalism” Inspired by Booker T. Washington United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Advoacted separation from whites Lead to Africa Racial purity & separation Prison time Deported to Jamaica

I Hear America Singing I Hear America singing, the varied carols I hear; Those of mechanics--each one singing his, as it should be, blithe and strong; The carpenter singing his, as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his, as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work; The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat--the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck; The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench--the hatter singing as he stands; The wood-cutter's song--the ploughboy's, on his way in the morning, or at the noon intermission, or at sundown; The delicious singing of the mother--or of the young wife at work--or of the girl sewing or washing--Each singing what belongs to her, and to none else; The day what belongs to the day--At night, the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, Singing, with open mouths, their strong melodious songs. Walt Whitman

Assignment Create a travel Brochure for the 1920s Highlight all the areas that would make people want to live in the 20s Thriving economy, popular culture, jazz age, etc Information can be found in chap 15 sec 2-3 Brochure must include 5 pieces of information about the 20s 5 pictures with color