1. The “Era of Wonderful Nonsense” brought fun in many forms Culture of the 1920s JAZZ ADVERTISEMENT CARS CREDIT FADS PROHIBITION MOVIES RADIO

2. Fad: an activity or a fashion that is taken up with great passion for a short time – Flagpole sitting – Dance Marathons – Crossword Puzzles – Mah-Jongg – Charleston: dance originating in S. Carolina—moving to a quick beat, dancers pivoted their feet while kicking out first one leg, then the other, backward & forward http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0 I’m going to teach you how!!!!

3. Flappers: young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking & acting – Wore hair bobbed, dresses short, bright red lipstick – To older Americans, flappers behaved & looked shockingly ridiculous – Smoked cigarettes in public – Drank alcohol in speak-easies – Drove fast cars – Very few were flappers – but soon older women would start trimming their hair & wearing shorter skirts & makeup

4. Jazz Jazz: music style that developed from blues, ragtime & other earlier styles Louis Armstrong: (1901-1971) one of the young African American musicians who helped create jazz – Learned to play the trumpet in a New Orleans orphanage – Experimentation with a simple melody paired with notes & rhythm Many older Americans worried that jazz & new dances were a bad influence on the nation’s young people

5. New Writers Many had horrifying experiences in WW1 Many criticized U.S. for caring to much about money & fun Some moved to Paris because they were unhappy in the states – Expatriates: people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land

6. Hemingway & Fitzgerald Hemingway – was a teenager when WW1 broke out – Drove an ambulance on the Italian front – A Farewell to Arms (novel – young man’s growing disgust with war – The Sun Also Rises – examined the life of expatriates in Europe F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby - examined the lives of wealthy young people who attended endless parties but could not find happiness Flappers, bootleggers, moviemakers

7. Other Writers Sinclair Lewis – Babbitt – wrote novels that presented small-town Americans as dull & narrow-minded – First American to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930

8. McKay - “If We Must Die” condemning lynching & mob violence that black Americans suffered after WW1 “If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted & penned in an inglorious spot, While ‘round us bark the mad & hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, & for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!”

9. Harlem Renaissance: a rebirth of African American culture Large #s of African American musicians, artists & writers settled in Harlem, NY in the 1920s Celebrated heritage Protested prejudice & racism Whites notice black achievements

10. Langston Hughes Poet Encouraged African Americans to be proud of their heritage Wrote parallels between African Americans living on the Mississippi with Africans living along the Nile

11. Sports Bobby Jones – Golf Bobby Jones – Golf Jack Dempsey – heavyweight boxing Jack Dempsey – heavyweight boxing Red Grange the “Galloping Ghost”- college football (University of Illinois) Red Grange the “Galloping Ghost”- college football (University of Illinois) Babe Ruth the “Sultan of Swat”—Baseball (most loved sport) NY Yankees Babe Ruth the “Sultan of Swat”—Baseball (most loved sport) NY Yankees – 714 HR record until 1974

12. Lucky Lindy Charles A. Lindbergh – May, 1927 – nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean alone – 33 hour journey on the Spirit of Saint Louis, out of NY – No map, no parachute, no radio – Landed in Paris, France

13. CULTURAL EXPERIENCE!!!