1920’s THE ARTS

Writers…

The Lost Generation Group of writers that rejected material wealth After suffering the horrors of WWI they didn’t fit

in everyday life F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote ‘The Great Gatsby”

It’s about a rich, but unhappy man Ernest Hemingway wrote “The Sun Also Rises”

Music…

So where was the first music publishing capital?

Tin Pan Alley Part of New York City Music publishing

capital of the world until 1950’sVideos\The Jazz Age.asf

Jazz…

Can’t do this without a little Louis Armstrong… He’s from New Orleans, Louisiana, not New York…

Videos\Louis Armstrong - When The Saints Go Marching In.mp4

Harlem Renaissance Poets and Writers

Langston Hughes One of America’s best poetsLet me read you a couple

Zora Neale HurstonOne of first successful African-American women

authors Not “arts”, but ….

Marcus GarveyLead “Back-To-Africa Movement”Wanted African Americans to return to Africa

(Liberia)

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