1. The Roaring 20’s
1920’s - Culture

2. Harlem Renaissance Harlem – world’s largest black urban community
In 1920’s became the focal point of intellectual, cultural, and artistic Black community.
Focused on what it meant to be Black in America and express a new pride in African American experience.

3. Writers: Langston Hughes, Claude McKay
Musicians: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Paul Roberson, Josephine Baker

4. I, Too http://www. poetryarchive. org/poetryarchive/singlePoem. do
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. Langston Hughes

5. Tin Pan Alley
Name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the U.S. Name originally referred to specific place: West 28th street between 5th and 6th avenue in Manhattan.
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6. Lost Generation
Group of writers in the 1920’s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialist world that lacked moral values, and who often chose to flee to Europe because they found it more intellectually stimulating. Most important writers settled in Paris.
People who were disconnected
from the countries values
Term Lost Generation made
famous by Ernest Hemingway.

7. PROHIBITION
A speakeasy, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, is an establishment that illegally sells alcoholic beverage. Such establishments came into prominence in the United States during the period known as Prohibition During this time, the sale, manufacture, and transportation (bootlegging) of alcoholic beverages was illegal throughout the United States.
The Stork Club, a famous speakeasy in New York City

8. CRIME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHroRBdbV1U
Inevitably most of the liquor traffic fell into the hands of gangsters, whose names we still know today. Alphonse "Scarface Al" Capone of Chicago was only the most notorious.
AL CAPONE MUGSHOT

9. Women’s Roles
Women participated in organized campaigns for suffrage and prohibition
Benefited from increase free time afforded to them by modern conveniences like electricity and appliances.
Taking Jobs vacated by men in WWI
Women felt more in control – hair and hemlines became shorter.
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10. FLAPPERS

11. Music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iJdXWY7JRo
JAZZ extremely popular in
speakeasies
New Orleans home of JAZZ

12. Radio
Radio --- the “wireless”
By 1930, more than 12 million families owned a radio
KDKA first commercial radio station---opened in Pittsburgh, 1920
Provided instant news, entertainment, and advertisements
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13. Literature- reflected pessimism of materialistic American culture
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Illustrated materialism & lack of human concern
Claude McKay – Harlem Shadows
About the racism in our culture
T. S. Eliot – poet
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner

14. Artist - Georgia O’Keeffe

15. FILM 1927 --- first “talkie” - “The Jazz Singer” Starring Al Jolson
Charlie Chaplin – most popular film star of 1920’s
Modern Times

16. Walt Disney – Mickey Mouse debuted in 1928
Mickey’s first movie – boat-willie-1928_shortfilms