Chapter 22, Section 3 The Jazz Age
Popular Dances of the 1920’s 1920's Fox Trot The Charleston http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3foxtrt.htm Lindy Hop Dance http://www.lifed.com/top-100-best-movies-of-all-time/8
1920’s Fads Flagpole sitting Dance Contests – It’s A Wonderful Life Kelly Records Flagpole sitting Dance Contests – It’s A Wonderful Life Mah-jongg Shipwreck Kelly
Heroes Babe Ruth &Ty Cobb Jack Dempsey Charles Lindbergh Red Grange Video will not hyperlink! Jack Dempsey Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis
African-American Performers Duke Ellington! Duke Ellington Jazz pianist and composer; one of America’s greatest composers Bessie Smith Blue’s singer; perhaps the outstanding female vocalist of her time; in 1927 became the highest paid black artist in the world Louis Armstrong (Satchmo) Jazz trumpet player; known for his astounding sense of rhythm and ability to improvise; went on to become the single most important and influential musician in the history of Jazz Sachmo!
Literature of the 1920’s Sinclair Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald
African-American Writers Langston Hughes Poet, known for poems that described the difficult everyday lives of working-class AA Zora Neale Hurston Writer of novels, books of folklore, poems, and short stories; known for works that portrayed the lived of poor, unschooled Southern AA
The End, Almost! Questions? The Birth of Jazz