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IV.1920’S CULTUREUnit 6: The Roaring Twenties
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A. RISING INCOMES AND LABOR SAVING DEVICES, SUCH AS WASHING MACHINES, GAVE FAMILIES MORE FREE TIME.
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B. MILLIONS OF AMERICANS BEGAN TO ATTEND THE MOVIES REGULARLY. EXAMPLES) RUDOLPH VALENTINO (LEFT) AND CHARLIE CHAPLIN (RIGHT)
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C. THE FIRST “TALKIE,” OR MOVIE WITH SOUND WAS THE JAZZ SINGER (1927) WHEN AL JOLSON SAID THE WORDS, “WAIT A MINUTE! WAIT A MINUTE! YOU AIN’T HEARD NOTHIN’ YET.”
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Sisters tuning a radio in the mid-1920’s
D. RADIOS ALSO BECAME VERY POPULAR DURING THE 1920’S AS FAMILIES GATHERED AROUND THE RADIO TO LISTEN TO MUSIC, COMEDIES, AND MYSTERIES.
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Do Now: Make a list of fads that you know of.
Fad – activity or fashion that is very popular for a short time
http://www.starmagic.com/catalog/2440849P.JPGhttp://msnbc.com/modules/take3/may/img/rewind/petRock.jpg
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Dance marathon, 1923
E. FADS CAUGHT ON QUICKLY DURING THE 1920’S. EX.) DANCE MARATHONS, FLAGPOLE SITTING
http://www.crazyfads.com/
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F. SPORTS “HEROES” INCLUDED BASEBALL STAR BABE RUTH
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G. OTHER AMERICAN “HEROES” INCLUDED AVIATORS CHARLES LINDBERGH, WHO FLEW HIS PLANE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS FROM NEW YORK TO PARIS COMPLETING THE FIRST NON-STOP FLIGHT ACROSS THE ATLANTIC…
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Lindbergh Arrived in Paris, 1927
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Lindbergh arrives in New York
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… AND AMELIA EARHART WHO BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO DO THE SAME. (1932)
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H. Jazz music was created by African-Americans by combining African rhythms and European harmonies. Famous artists included Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
Video: “Tiger Rag” by, Louis Armstrong 1932 (2:57)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TGSYmYVYdghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TGSYmYVYdghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TGSYmYVYdg
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BLUES SINGER BESSIE SMITH WAS ALSO POPULAR.
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Ex.) the Charleston and the shimmy
I. Jazz music brought new forms of dancing.
Video: The Charleston – Harlem, NY, 1950’s (1:50)
Contemporary Application: Video: Get Lite – Bronx,
NY, 2007 (4:13)
Josephine Baker dancing the Charleston in Paris, France, 1926
http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3chrlst.htmhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503642495903886691&q=charleston&total=11737&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503642495903886691&q=charleston&total=11737&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYoCCX_ePAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYoCCX_ePA
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J. Older Americans worried that jazz music was a bad influence on the nation’s young people.
Tales of the Jazz Age, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
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Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture in the 1920’sExamples: Countee Cullen – writer/poet
“Incident” by, Countee Cullen
Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."
I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember.
http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htmhttp://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htmhttp://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/cullen/cullen.htmhttp://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/a_f/cullen/cullen.htm
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Examples: Langston Hughes – writer / poet
“Harlem” by, Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83http://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htmhttp://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm
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Examples: Zora Neale Hurston – writer / poet
“The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody to associate with me who does not wish me near them?”
- Zora Neale Hurston (1955)
Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blhurston.htmhttp://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blhurston.htmhttp://www.jcu.edu/harlem/index.htm