1. Popular Culture in the Roaring Twenties
Chapter 28

2. Essential Question
What social trends and innovations shaped popular culture during the 1920s?

3. Roaring Twenties
A nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade’s prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom

4. Consumerism New Products (kitchen & household appliances)
Advertising created demand for new products
Increase in use of credit to purchase goods.

5. Transportation Affordable Cars (Model T)
Easier to travel and live to the city, suburbanization
More highways built
Travel industry (motels, diners

6. Mass Media Radio (Sports, News, shows) Silent Movies
Pop Culture, exposure to new fashion and ideas

7. (Women’s Rights)League of Women Voters
A grassroots organization created to educate women about public issues
Women gained the right to vote in 1920

8. Women’s Rights
Women demonstrated new freedom by wearing shorter dresses, shorter hair, make-up, going out and having fun.

9. The Jazz Age
Jazz: Music of African American Origin, involves improvisation, blues, and catchy rhythms
Charleston: Jazz inspired dance (fast, kicks, turns)

10. Harlem Renaissance
An era of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians who gathered in Harlem during the 1920s
Langston Hughes published poems to call for greater racial equality

11. Lost Generation
a group of young Americans writers who were disillusioned by WWI and the growing consumer culture
F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.E. Cummings