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?
