Bell Ringer

What are some things you do that your parents don’t approve of/drives them nuts?

1920s Shopping List

The Jazz AgeGlamour, culture, and excitement!

The Lost GenerationFinding a new meaning of life in postwar America

The Lost Generation

Coined by poet Gertrude Stein

Mostly writers, musicians, and painters who questioned accepted ideas about reason, progress, religion, anxieties about the future, and fear of the future

Often settled in Paris, but often moved from city to city trying to find the meaning of life

ExistentialismThere is no universal understanding

or meaning to life. Each person creates his or her own meaning in life through actions and choices

taken.

Gertrude SteinTender Buttons: objects, food, rooms

“A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS.

A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.

GLAZED GLITTER.

Nickel, what is nickel, it is originally rid of a cover.”

Lost Generation Writers Ernest Hemmingway –

known for stoic male characters and disillusionment with youth and heroism; The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms

Buffalo Bill’s – e.e. cummings

e.e. cummings – experimented with typeset, diction, and punctuation in his poetry

Buffalo Bill 's defunct             who used to             ride a watersmooth-silver                                                 stallion and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat                                                                         Jesus he was a handsome man                                     and what i want to know is how do you like your blueeyed boy Mister Death

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The epitome of the age itself, coined the term the “Jazz Age” and glamorized the youth and excitement of the times in The Great Gatsby

TechnologyInventions and their effect on culture

A New Consumer Culture

Many new goods came on the market to take advantage of the new disposable income.

Most were advertised on the radio

People began buying high-priced items on credit – enjoy now, pay later!

Quickly, credit was applied to all purchases, big and small, inflating ideas of the public wealth and security of purchases

The Radio

More than any other invention of the age, the radio changed the very nature of how Americans communicated› National Broadcasting Company and the

Columbia Broadcasting System became the first national broadcasts

It created a homogeneous American culture:› Sports› Entertainment› News› Advertising› Standardized speech patterns

Art Deco Art Deco is one of the most

enduring physical legacies of the 1920s

Art Deco became the prevailing style for everything from buildings (the Chrysler Building) to jewelry

It emphasized geometric shapes, pattern of color, and symmetry

What do these have in common?

Pantages Theatre

Putting America on the Move By 1920, the automobile was a way of

life for many Americans. Henry Ford produced the first

affordable automobile by using the assembly line.

– 1913: Workers could build a car every 93 minutes. Sold for $490.

– 1925: Workers finished a new Ford every 10 seconds. Sold $295.

• Model T was nicknamed the “Tin Lizzie” or “Flivver”

“You can get the Model T in any color you wish, as long as

that color is black.”

Effects of the Automobile Created a new industry

that would drive America's economy for the next 50 years.

The automobile gave American youth the opportunity to pursue interests away from parents.

Allowed people to move farther away from the cities

1920 Ford Model T

In 1919, a New York City hotel owner offered $25,000 to the first aviator to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.

Several pilots were killed or injured while competing for the Orteig prize.

Orteig Prize

Charles Lindbergh An American aviator who made

the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. › Total flight time: 33 hours, 30

minutes, 29.8 seconds. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours.  

Lindbergh's feat gained him immediate, international fame. The press named him "Lucky Lindy" and the "Lone Eagle."

Amelia Earhart

The Jazz Age Starts Swingin’

America’s Social Revolution

The Charleston

The MoviesAmerica is mesmerized by the silver screen

Much had changed since Thomas Edison’s “moving pictures” – Hollywood was now a bustling metropolis filled with actors hoping to “make it big”

Hunks and Hams

RudolphValentino

DouglasFairbanks

“Fatty”Arbuckle

CharlieChaplin

Glittering Starlets

Mary PickfordMarion Davies

Clara Bow

The Jazz Singer – The first “Talkie”

The story begins with young Jakie Rabinowitz defying the traditions of his devout Jewish family by singing popular tunes in a beer hall. Punished by his father, a cantor, Jakie runs away from home. Some years later, now calling himself Jack Robin, he has become a talented jazz singer. He attempts to build a career as an entertainer, but his professional ambitions ultimately come into conflict with the demands of his home and heritage.

Sports Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey NFL

The Great Experiment

In 1919, the 18th Amendment was passed, outlawing the manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption of alcohol illegal in the United States

Congress passed the Volstead Act a year later, which gave the federal government the ability to enforce the amendment.

Moonshining and Bootlegging

With alcohol still being a desired product, many turned to illegal methods of obtaining it› Moonshining› Bootlegging› Speakeasies

Gangsters Prohibition did not

decrease the demand for alcohol, and thus a cutthroat black market trade emerged.

Bootleggers began using intimidation and violence to guard their “territory”

Organized crime families got into the business as well, setting an example for how bootleggers could manage their “employees”

Gangster Party

Chicago was a central location for alcohol-related crime

Many gangsters with colorful names began making headlines: “Baby Face” Nelson, Lucky Luciano, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Jack “Legs” Diamond, “Bugs” Moran, “Bugsy” Siegel, John Dillinger

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Suspected for his involvement with the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (among other crimes), Capone was unable to be pinned down, since most of the actual violence was committed through his associates.

Was eventually sentenced for tax evasion, sent to Alcatraz, and died at home from the effects of pneumonia, a stroke, and syphilis

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A long-standing conflict between two powerful gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran

Resulted in the murder of 7 mob associates

The Harlem RenaissanceBringing African American

culture into the forefront

African American Politics WWI left African Americans with a new

sense of pride, having shown bravery and dedication during the war.

W.E.B. Du Bois was very outspoken in his aim to increase the status of blacks in America.

NAACP battled valiantly to eliminate segregation and make lynching a federal offense

Marcus Garvey A dynamic leader

from Jamaica, he promoted “Negro Nationalism,” which glorified black culture and the traditions of the past

Back to Africa Movement

Literature Literature of the Harlem

Renaissance reflected the struggles and contributions of African Americans.

Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God› Relates the story of

fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving selfhood through three marriages and a life marked by poverty, trials, and purpose.

Literature Langston HughesWhat 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?

Jazz and Blues

BluesBessie Smith – Empty Bed Blues

I woke up this morning with a awful aching headI woke up this morning with a awful aching headMy new man had left me, just a room and a empty bedBought me a coffee grinder that's the best one I could findBought me a coffee grinder that's the best one I could findOh, he could grind my coffee, 'cause he had a brand new grind

Louis Armstrong – “Satchmo”

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

Jazz jumpstarts Classical