1. The Roaring 1920s Decade of Decadence

2. How Much is Too Much? Decadence: overabundance of: alcohol crime music parties consumer goods Counterculture emerges role of the females and African-Americans literary, art, cultural movements

3. Advertisements Goal: make American people always want MORE Sex Appeal New technology Brand Loyalty Consumer Culture

4. Automobiles Assembly Lines: 1 Car/10 seconds Ford in America Model T: reliable and affordable (only $290!). Creates 6,000,000 jobs Leading mode of transportation

5. Entertainment FILMS Edison invents movies Hollywood=hot spot for movie production Later used as propaganda tools (WWII) RADIO –M–Most common and affordable means of entertainment –S–Soap operas, game shows, music, etc. –P–Politicians use radios to spread political messages

6. Literature Fresh new style of writing Search for new morals and methods of expression H.L. Mencken (America’s faults) Fitzgerald and Dreiser (Society) Hemmingway and Faulker Anderson and Lewis (small towns) Poetry: Pound, T.S. Eliot, Frost Lost Generation - post WWI disillusionment and alienation sex

7. Prohibition led to illegal manufacturing & distribution of alcohol moonshine speakeasies crime increased dramatically - Al Capone

8. Women’s Roles “Women’s work” no longer confined to the home Employment:low-paying jobs Examples: retail clerks, office typing NATIONAL WOMEN’S PARTY equal rights amendments for the constitution 19th Amendment (1920) - Women’s Suffrage birth control movement/Margaret Sanger Freudian promoted teenagers pioneering sexual frontiers sexual repression is unhealthy

9. Flappers Raised hemline Bobbed Hair Lyrics to “Thoroughly Modern Millie”: “Everything today is throughly modern Check your personality Everything today makes yesterday slow Better face reality It’s not insanity Says Vanity Fair In fact, it’s stylish to Raise your skirts and bob your hair. Have you seen the way they kiss in the movies Isn’t it delectable? Painting lips and penciling your brow. Now is quite respectable. Good-bye, good goody girl I’m changing and how So beat the drums ‘cause here comes Throughly Modern Millie now.” Modern Woman Makeup Young women emerge as young and provocative - adults don’t approve.

10. The Harlem Renaissance Harlem, NY First important movement of black authors and artists. Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois. new sense of identity MARCUS GARVEY United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) Resettlement in Africa Black Star Line Steamship Company “put Black money into Black pockets” Nation of Islam and Rastafari movement Southern gentle lady, Do not swoon. They've just hung a black man In the dark of the moon.They've hung a black man To the roadside tree In the dark of the moon For the world to see How Dixie protects Its white womanhood Southern gentle lady, Be good! Silhouette by Langston Hughes Southern gentle lady, Do not swoon. They've just hung a black man In the dark of the moon.They've hung a black man To the roadside tree In the dark of the moon For the world to see How Dixie protects Its white womanhood Southern gentle lady, Be good! Silhouette by Langston Hughes

11. The Blues Black music becomes popular Handy “Jelly Roll” Morton, Joseph King Oliver, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey. African American Women for, the first time in history, have a voice. Not just sad love songs. Sing about controversial topics (booze, drugs, sex, abuse, etc.). “ Down Hearted Blues” by Bessie Smith song lyrics: “Trouble trouble. I’ve had it all my days (2x). It seems that trouble is going to follow me to my grave.”

12. Jazz Jazz is the craze in nightclubs African Americans are allowed in the clubs, but usually only to provide the entertainment. Party atmosphere made livelier by illegal sale of alcohol (ie: speakeasies). “ It Don’t Mean a Thing” by Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald song lyrics: “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. It don’t mean a thing all you got to do is sing. It makes no difference if it’s sweet or hot. Just keep that rhythm, give it everything you’ve got.”

13. KKK membership five million