BELL WORK Come in and pick up “Jazz age slang!” Look over it and see if you are able to figure out what the slang words mean!

THE ROARING 20’S THE POSTWAR WORLD

CHANGING PATTERNS Warren Harding – elected Pres “Return to Normalcy” But there was no going back People in N. Amer. And Europe experimented w/ new customs and ways of life.

WHAT’S TRENDING? Women gained a new level of independence 19 th Amendment Women known as “flappers” created a revolution in manners and morals. People in general wanted larger than life heroes. Babe Ruth – baseball Big Bill Tilden – Tennis Gertrude Ederle – Swimming Charles Lindbergh – Pilot

WHAT’S TRENDING? WW1 opened a lot of doors for economic development. Pres. Calvin Coolidge summed up the U.S. in the 20’s. “The business of America is business”

TECHNOLOGY Decade following WW1 witnessed a revo. In transportation and communication. Automobiles had the biggest impact in the world. U.S. became very mobile Radios produced a homogenous culture. Phonograph- Record player

TECHNOLOGY The demand for consumer goods increased. Vacuum cleaners, packaged foods, electric irons Leisure time Movies-First talking movie “The Jazz Singer”

PHYSICS 1905 – German physicist Albert Einstein introduced his Theory of Relativity. No absolutes in time and space Time and space depend on the relative motion of bodies and space. Speed of light is constant and all matter has energy.

PHYSICS Einstein’s E=MC^2 was supported w/ the first atomic bomb. “There are no absolutes in any field of knowledge or moral values.”

PSYCHOLOGY Austrian physician, Sigmund Freud, revolutionized ideas about how the mind works. Unconscious mind plays a major role in shaping behavior. Led to new approaches w/ mental illnesses and education.

THE ARTS Biggest gap between old and new after WW1 was in art. Painting, literature, music, dance, etc. New styles introduced Pablo Picasso’s Guernica-Spanish Civil War-1930s Cubism

LITERATURE Poets like T. S. Eliot used a complex style to present a sense of despair about life. No hope Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald developed different styles – Irish Novelist James Joyce published Ulysses Style known as “stream of consciousness ”

LITERATURE Harlem Renaissance – African American Literary movement. Focused on African American experience in U.S. John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath described the Oklahoma farmers who abandoned their fields. Moved to Cali.

PAINTING Radical new styles in painting – Pablo Picasso introduced cubism w/ Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. Dada stressed absurdity and the unpredictability of life. Dada’s reliance on imagination led to surrealism Dream-like images

PAINTING Salvador Dali – known for his impossible images. (Spanish painter) Social realist painters showed the human suffering caused by the Depression (1930’s). Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, etc.

MUSIC / DANCE Several composers and musicians changed their styles after WW1. Arnold Schoenberg-Composer Europeans conducted music w/o traditional harmonies. U.S. – 1920’s were known as the “jazz age.” Combination of American, West African, and European classical music.

MUSIC / DANCE Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham – changed dance into an art form in U.S. Russian sponsor, Sergey Diaghilev, developed modern ballet. George Balanchine expanded Sergey’s work – brought it to the U.S.

ARCHITECTURE 20’s and 30’s saw new designs in buildings and furnishings. Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus school of design Frank Lloyd Wright blended architecture w/ surrounding nature.

POP. CULTURE Hollywood productions dominated movie theaters around the world. The creative use of cameras elevated silent films into an art form – The Jazz Singer was the first non-silent film. October 1929 – Tragedy struck w/ deadly consequences