1. TOPIC 7B: THE JAZZ AGE
LISTEN TO JAZZ AND CLASSICAL

2. LEISURE Movies Most Americans escaped reality at the movies
Some movies promoted immoral behavior
Americans interested in celebrity gossip
Americans change trends based upon movie trends
Rudolph Valentino – People cried at his funeral, 30,000 women

3. LEISURE
Sports
American enjoyed the time, energy, and money to enjoy sports the same way they did the movies.
Idolization of sports stars was the same as movie stars

4. LEISURE Music Dance Jazz and blues popularized by African Americans
Sad songs that grew from Southern slave music
Jazz
Starts in New Orleans
Unorganized without sheet music
Dance
The Charleston
Describe it in your notes
SHOW YOUR STUFF!

5. LEISURE Reading Syndicates started Tabloids started
Chains of newspapers under centralized direction
Tabloids started
Newspapers with gossip, scandals, fads etc.
Literacy grows greatly due to the new magazines.

6. THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
African American literary and artistic movement
Expressed anger at racism
Use jazz, poetry, and intellectual discussions to discuss the state of their race
Refused to accept “second-class citizenship.”

7. THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

8. THE YOUTH After WWI, America desired youth Fashion & fads
New dress, music, & language.
Cheap production + advertising = changing society.
Fads (going viral) could change any day

9. THE YOUTH
Flappers
Women change their image to more revealing and youthful appearance & attitude.
Before World War I, women were arrested for smoking or using profanity in public.
The flapper drank, smoked, and went joyriding in automobiles.

10. Compare slide 10 to 11. This is old fashion, slide 11 is the new flapper fashion.

12. BACKLASH The Lost Generation Writers who attacked American materialism
Obsession with buying things and living large
They moved to Europe to criticize the U.S.
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises 1926
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby 1925