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The Jazz AgeGlamour, culture, and excitement!

The Lost GenerationFinding a new meaning of life in postwar America

La Vie Boehme! "Bohemian" is applied

to people who live unconventional, usually artistic, lives.

Congregated in Greenwich Village, on the lower west side of NYC.

Sought to break social barriers, refuting traditional gender norms and sexual stereotypes.

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

William Faulkner – popularized the “stream of consciousness” style and focused on the Southern experience; The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying

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

The Radio

More than any other invention of the age, the radio changed the very nature of how Americans communicated

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

Sports Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey NFL

Architecture 1920s architecture is one of the

most enduring physical legacies of the era

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

It emphasized geometric shapes, pattern of color, and symmetry

Pantages Theatre

Bell Ringer

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

The Jazz Age Starts Swingin’

America’s Social Revolution

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The New Morality

WWI had allowed women more independence (broke away from traditional roles), and their work in the war effort increased their belief in their intellect and importance in society as a whole.

Women began breaking from traditional clothing styles and expectations of women.

The New Girl

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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.

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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Al Capone was the most influential and dangerous gangster

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