warm up: how much are you judged or do you judge based on what is worn? u. s. history

Warm Up: How much are you judged or do you judge based on what is worn?

U. S. History

Classwork:Cornell NotesPrepare your paper, DATE! Topic: 1920s

Culture (1920s)Preview:

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Check it:Post-War Social Change

Industrialization, immigration and the Great War brought a challenge of traditional values=REVOLUTION in manners and morals

Women were rebellious, energetic, fun, bold (some was convenience)boyish short hair (bob), short

dresses, eyebrows plucked, REDsmoking and liquorWar: change in workforce: women

quit if married or prego, not =pay/promotion

voting not a big deal yet3

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Post-War Social ChangeDemographics: description of

population statisticsRural v urban (farmers moved)High school attendance up 2X

economic splitcultural split (flappers :( rural)

African Americans move north: along with WWI refugees

Immigration limits: not for Canada and Mexico; L.A.=barrios (Hispanic)

suburbs: buses not trolleys4

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Post-War Social ChangeHEROES:

changes make Americans look for traditional values in heroes!

Lucky Lindy Spirit of St. Louis, $25K prizeflew across Atlantic, 33.5

hours

Amelia EarhartGertrude EderleThorpeDempseyBabe Ruth5

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Mass Media and the Jazz Age: 13.2

MASS media (newspapers, magazines, radio, “talkies”)changes the “American” culture

from regional to NATIONALMovies: Chaplin, Garbo, Gish;

HollywoodNow we are obsessed with stars

and fashion (sound familiar?)advertisers pay more if more read it!

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Mass Media and the Jazz Age: 13.2

Radio+migration= JAZZoff beat syncopationragtime+blues, and you can DANCE

to it!uh oh, suggestive, free manners and

moralsbreathless, energetic, superactive,

like the times themselvesCotton Club in HarlemBenny Goodman, Gershwin,

Rhapsody in Blue, http://youtu.be/qDQpZT3GhDg

Dance the Charleston http://youtu.be/CjQ5F0pXQoo7

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Mass Media and the Jazz Age: 13.2

Art: Georgia O’Keefe (love her)Literature: Sinclair Lewis,

Eugene O’Neill, “The Lost Generation”

ex-pats: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Harlem Renaissance: Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson (NAACP); Claude McCay; Langston Hughes; Alain Locke

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Exit

How was the flapper an example of the 1920s attitude for women?