Popular Culture in the Roaring Twenties

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Popular Culture in the Roaring Twenties Chapter 28

Essential Question What social trends and innovations shaped popular culture during the 1920s?

Roaring Twenties A nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade’s prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom

Consumerism New Products (kitchen & household appliances) Advertising created demand for new products Increase in use of credit to purchase goods.

Transportation Affordable Cars (Model T) Easier to travel and live to the city, suburbanization More highways built Travel industry (motels, diners

Mass Media Radio (Sports, News, shows) Silent Movies Pop Culture, exposure to new fashion and ideas

(Women’s Rights)League of Women Voters A grassroots organization created to educate women about public issues Women gained the right to vote in 1920

Women’s Rights Women demonstrated new freedom by wearing shorter dresses, shorter hair, make-up, going out and having fun.

The Jazz Age Jazz: Music of African American Origin, involves improvisation, blues, and catchy rhythms Charleston: Jazz inspired dance (fast, kicks, turns)

Harlem Renaissance An era of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians who gathered in Harlem during the 1920s Langston Hughes published poems to call for greater racial equality

Lost Generation a group of young Americans writers who were disillusioned by WWI and the growing consumer culture F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.E. Cummings

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