1. Modernism

2. Historical Background World War I
a world conflict lasting from 1914 to 1919
fighting lasted until 1918
war was fought by the Allies on one side, and the Central Powers on the other
the war had become the second bloodiest conflict in recorded history.
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg on 28 June 1914 in Bosnia-Herzegovina brought the tensions between Austria-Hungary and Serbia to a head. This triggered a chain of international events that embroiled Russia and the major European powers. War broke out in Europe over the next thirty-seven days.

3. Historical Background World War I: Economic Effects
Boom in Technology and Industry
Competitive work force
Jobs for women (women’s rights; 19th amendment)
Economic Security

4. The Roaring 20’s 1st Radio Station on air
Boom in automobile production
Radical change in women’s fashions (flappers)/ Coco Channel popularizes the “little black dress”
General carefree feeling of security, due to America’s flourishing economy
Flourishing film industry

5. Coco Channel

6. Greta Garbo

7. Charlie Chaplin

8. Betty Boop

9. The Great Depression
began in October 1929, when the stock market in the United States dropped rapidly
thousands of investors lost large sums of money and many were wiped out, lost everything; many committed suicide
this 'crash' led us into the Great Depression
longest and worst period of high unemployment and low business activity in modern times.
banks, stores, and factories were closed and left millions of Americans jobless, homeless, and penniless. Many people came to depend on the government or charity to provide them with food.

10. Modernist Authors Robert Frost e.e. cummings Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Claude McKay
Willa Cather
Katherine Anne Porter

11. Literary Characteristics
Free Verse- form of poetry with no set meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern
Juxtaposition-The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development
Stream of Consciousness
Experimentation in form and content
Themes involving disillusionment

12. The Harlem Renaissance
Explosion of African American art, literature, music, and philosophy
Great Migration- Migration of African Americans from the South to the North, due to the destruction of crops by the bo weevil.
Precursor to the Civil Rights Movement

13. Harlem is vicious
Modernism. BangClash.
Vicious the way it's made,
Can you stand such beauty.
So violent and transforming.
- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

14. Philosophical Divide Marcus Garvey W.E.B Dubois
Leader of the “Back to Africa” Movement
Believed African Americans should not assimilate to American cultural norms; rather, they should focus on going back to the motherland
Sociologist; Co-founder of the NAACP; historian, writer
Believed in desegregation and equal rights for African Americans in the United States

15. Jazz Age Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Ella Fitzgerald
Josephine Baker
Billie Holiday

16. Harlem Art
Aaron Douglas
Primitivism
Jacob Lawrence

17. The Great Gatsby
Please obtain your copy of The Great Gatsby for a book check by: Tuesday April 20th