The Jazz Age & 1919=1929 https://youtu.be/VfOR1XCMf7A The Roaring Twenties The Jazz Age & 1919=1929 https://youtu.be/VfOR1XCMf7A

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The Jazz Age Background Music form developed in New Orleans by black musicians near the turn of the century. A purely American creation, relied on traditional black themes and improvisation. Would spread throughout America and be adopted by white musicians and audiences. Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Louis_Armstrong_restored.jpg/250px-Louis_Armstrong_restored.jpg 3

The Jazz Age The Meaning Of Jazz Total improvisational style, meant liberation for both the artist and the audience. Expressed the desire to break with tradition. Jazz becomes the symbol of the new “American rebel.” 1920s Jazz Band http://seventhgradehistory.wikispaces.com/file/view/27374_2.jpg/189700758/27374_2.jpg 4

KDKA In The Roaring Twenties Radio Background Developed in the late 1800s, would be used for the military during World War I. First commercial radio station is created in 1920 with KDKA in Pittsburgh. https://youtu.be/HC_mgp6BJtU KDKA In The Roaring Twenties http://www.hammondmuseumofradio.org/images/kdka-logo.jpg 5

The Great Train Robbery Movies Early Films First major film: The Great Train Robbery, 1903. https://youtu.be/8oTdPklBE0Y First major epic: Birth Of A Nation, 1915. Directed by D.W. Griffiths, was about the Reconstruction South. The Great Train Robbery http://www.pictureshowman.com/images/GTR_Edison_poster.gif 6

Movies Early Films Other key films. The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse (1920), The Sheik (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Thief Of Baghdad (1924), The Torrent (1926), The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1923), The Phantom Of The Opera (1925), Ben-Hur (1925), Wings (1927), Steamboat Willie (1928). Steamboat Willie http://farm1.staticflickr.com/98/240970989_4461ecb691.jpg The Sheik http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/144321.1020.A.jpg Phantom Of The Opera http://www.cultmoviez.com/P/slides/POSTER%20-%20THE%20PHANTOM%20OF%20THE%20OPERA%20(1925)%20(2).jpg 7

Movies Success As An Art Form Originally only accepted by immigrants and low-income families. Most people who could afford it went to plays, instead going to “nickelodeons” for cheap entertainment. Movies unlike radio now appealed to national audiences. Old 1920s Nickelodeon http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_tX4uFyNzVRE/S6617VS9X0I/AAAAAAAAAj4/XLKABRUau4o/s1600/the-spoilers-sm.jpg 8

Movies Key Figures Of The Silent & Early Golden Age Douglas Fairbanks http://www.filmsquish.com/guts/files/images/Fairbanks%20Sr.,%20Douglas%20(Thief%20of%20Bagdad,%20The)_02.jpg Hollywood Power Couple: Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks http://www.fortunecity.com/lavender/wargames/154/couple.jpg John Barrymore http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/graphics/barrymorerogue.jpg 9

Movies Key Figures Of The Silent & Early Golden Age W.C. Fields http://www.davidstuff.com/general/wcfields1.jpg Groucho Marx http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gxhfujdV9pM/TZu-a0Dsn0I/AAAAAAAAACE/ed62IAr9GmU/s1600/groucho-marx.jpg The Marx Brothers http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Marx_Brothers_1931.jpg/220px-Marx_Brothers_1931.jpg 10

Movies Key Figures Of The Silent & Early Golden Age Animator. Walt Disney. Walt Disney & Mickey Mouse http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/images/content/walt-disney_mickey-mouse.jpg 11

Movies Key Figures Of The Silent & Early Golden Age Charlie Chaplin. Created the character known as “The Tramp,” combined comedy with satire and realism. Key movies included The Tramp, The Gold Rush, City Lights, Modern Times, and The Great Dictator. Charlie Chaplin As The Tramp http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/PYR/PP30492.jpg 12

Golden Age Of Sports Increase In Popularity More people begin to follow the events due to the increase in media outlets. Radio, cheap tickets to games and movies, cheap newspapers. More spending money and leisure time allow more people to attend events. Advertisers target sports figures to sell everything, including breakfast cereal, cars, batteries, and refrigerators. New stadiums built to attract more fans. Would fill with the largest crowds at a sporting event since the fall of Rome. Babe Ruth Schlepping Cigars http://www.pophistorydig.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/1938-cigar-ad-wife-lat12-1-330.jpg 13

The Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Hellfighters Returning From WWI Harlem Renaissance First major mass migration of African Americans to the North. Wanted more equality, freedom, political participation, and opportunity. Harlem Hellfighters Returning From WWI http://www.whudat.com/news/images/harlem-hellfighters-big.jpg 15

Harlem Renaissance Even though life was hard in the city, it did produce some advantages. Enabled African-Americans to elect representatives of their own by having one solid voting block. Stimulated self-confidence, offering economic opportunity, political rights, and freedom. African-Americans could develop their own culture. Harlem Ghetto In The 1920s http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljfxwjAHUj1qf4u8p.jpg 16

Harlem Renaissance Why Harlem? Largest Black city in the world, would become the cultural capital of African Americans, as well as a place for Whites to flock to experience jazz and other forms of African-American culture. The Famous Cotton Club http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xEehooYC6Rk/TA8kJPDzd-I/AAAAAAAACYU/jbiZjTgXYbY/s1600/cottoncb.jpg 17

Harlem Renaissance Writers Expressed a range of emotions from bitterness to joy and hope. Included Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and James Weldon Johnston. Langston Hughes http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1OwcuI9Xi7A/TwpH5If4qEI/AAAAAAAAESI/SqyzXsiPKOo/s1600/Langston%2BHughes.jpg 18