1. Changes during the 1920s and 1930s

2. Flu Pandemic 1918 Cause: Effects:
close quarters and massive troop movements in WWI
increased travel
Effects:
wasn’t isolated to one place, it became known around the world as the Spanish flu
struck down many previously healthy, young people
Life expectancy plummeted

3. 1918 Flu Pandemic: Depletes All Armies
50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died

4. Scientific Theories
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud

5. Changes: Music, Art and Literature

6. Music Jazz Black Creole subculture
Igor Stravinsky
Russian, and later French and American, composer, pianist and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century.
Jazz
Blues were the foundation of Jazz
Why is new Orleans the birthplace of Jazz if other cities had the same types of music?
Black Creole subculture
Many were classically trained in Paris (free creoles of color)
Freed slaves sang music by ear and relied on memorization
The two cultures combined when the Civil War ended and fused both types of music

7. Cubism 1907 - 1914 AD Created by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
It is complete denial of Classical conception of beauty
Used sharp edged geometric shapes

8. Picasso Guernica 1937

9. Picasso Guernica 1937
Was the centerpiece for the Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 World's Fair.
A brutal civil war ravaged Spain. a fascist coup led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco were attaching the new Republican government. Franco promises prosperity and stability to the people of Spain, but he delivered only death and destruction.
Spain was Picasso’s homeland
He did not like overtly political art work
Hitler used Guernica as bombing practice and in support of Franco on April 27, 1937.
They bombed it on a day when the market was full.
1600 people died and 800 were injured.
Almost the entire town was destroyed
Protesters hit the streets of Paris Picasso went to his studio and started to work on the mural

10. Ch’i Pai-shih
His output reflects a diversity of interests and experience, generally focusing on the smaller things of the world rather than the large landscape, and he continued the styles of 17th- and 18th-century individualists.
Fish, shrimp, crabs, and frogs were his favorite subjects.
He was most accomplished at simple, freely sketched compositions, but he could also successfully execute a meticulous style.

11. Surrealism A literary and art movement inspired by Freudianism
Advocated the expression of imagination revealed in dreams
Most famous: Salvador Dali

12. Harlem Renaissance: Literature
Writers of the Harlem renaissance celebrated ties to African culture, black pride, and questioned the position of blacks in America.
Famous Harlem writers: Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes.
I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

13. Literature
Literature of the 1920s reflected a rejection of idealism and the narrow-mindedness and shallowness of life in America.
It questioned the materialism of the 1920s.
Many American authors were so soured by American culture that they moved to Europe.
Thus becoming expatriates- a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than that of the person's upbringing.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and H.L. Mencken were apart of this group known as the Lost Generation.

14. The Lost Generation
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway

15. The Lost Generation
James Joyce
T. S. Eliot
Gertrude Stein

16. Changes: Entertainment & Mass Media

17. Entertainment Radio: the most powerful communications medium to emerge
It allowed for the nation to share news AS it happened.
The invention in radio also helped spread appreciation for tends in new music especially jazz and promoted a shared culture.

18. Entertainment continued
Movies became a national pastime.
The first movie with sound was produced in 1927 and Walt Disney came out with the first animated film with sound.
Movies portrayed materialism and sometimes racist themes such as in Birth of a Nation.

19. Olympics had not been around for 1500 years!
Rise in Sports Culture
In the 1920s, soccer was big in America
Babe Ruth
Modern day Olympics
Olympics had not been around for 1500 years!
Golf becomes a popular past time

21. Changes: Architecture

22. International Style 1920s - 1940's
A style of architecture applied to residences and public buildings that is minimalist in concept, is devoid of regional characteristics, stresses functionalism, and rejects all nonessential decorative elements; typically this style emphasizes the horizontal aspects of a building.

23. Architecture
Lloyd Wright
Louis Sullivan

24. Changes: Role of Women

25. Increasing role of women
Why did their role increase?
WWI
19th Amendment
Activism
The flapper
Her look
Her actions
Her impact on society
Work
Voting