1. Music and Entertainment

2. Entertainment
Movies and Radio became more and more used due to the increase in technology
Movie and Radio were used as entertainment for leisure time
Film stars became icons and sex symbols of the United States around the world.
Popular movie stars of the decade included Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Mary Pickford, Clara Bow, Greta Garbo, and Douglas Fairbanks.

3. Let’s go to the movies!
The 1920’s were dominated by a general increase in “leisure time”
By the end of the decade “talkies” replaced silent films, providing Canadians with some cheap (albeit American) entertainment.

4. Entertainment Mickey Mouse was also very famous in the 1920s
Mickey Mouse became
everyone’s favorite cartoon
in the 1920s, when Walt came
out with Steamboat willie.

5. Writers and Poets
Young writers and intellectuals believed this new modern society was cold, materialistic, and impersonal - without opportunities for personal fulfillment.
Blames WWI - Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, tells about his generation’s contempt for the war.
F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the new youth culture in novels like, The Great Gatsby and The Other Side of Paradise.
Ernest Hemmingway

6. Sports Radio and newspapers play a large role in the growth of sport
Increased middle class wealth and leisure time allowed people to watch sporting events
Sports become more mainstream because of superstar athletes during the 1920’s.
Bobby Jones-Golf
Red Grange- Football
Babe Ruth- Baseball

7. 1890’s Music

8. 1920’s Music and Culture Brand of Music and Culture that connects:
Brand of Music and Culture that connects:
Party Lifestyle
Prohibition
Speakeasies
Great Migration

9. Jazz The musical innovation of the decade was started in New Orleans
Followed the Mississippi to Northern cities then spread across the nation
Chicago and New York
Cultural exchange between African American and other Americans

10. The Great Migration
A large scale movement of thousands of Southern African-Americans to cities in the North
African-Americans left to escape racial discrimination in the South and take advantage of the job opportunities in Northern factories

11. Harlem Renaissance
Black intellectuals created a thriving African American culture in Harlem, New York
Poets, artists, novelists, and musicians reach back to their African roots to demonstrate the richness of their racial heritage.
Going against tradition and moving towards modernity

12. Harlem Renaissance: Jazz
A Product of the Great Migration
Southern African Americans moving to the Northern cities
Brought with them their culture
Revolutionized music of the time
Jazz Clubs- Clubbing(dating), Dancing, and Bootlegged Liquor?

13. Entertainment cont’d
“The Charleston” was the most popular ragtime jazz dance.
Dance contests were widely popular, often lasting for many hours, to the point of complete exhaustion.

14. Duke Ellington

15. Louis Armstrong

16. Langston Hughes Besides, I, too, sing America.
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed -
I, too, am America.
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.
Langston Hughes

17. Renaissance Poetry