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Bell Ringer

Bell Ringer. What are some things you do that your parents don’t approve of/drives them nuts?. The Jazz Age. Glamour, culture, and excitement!. The New Morality. The struggle between tradition and modernity. The New Morality.

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Bell Ringer

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  1. Bell Ringer • What are some things you do that your parents don’t approve of/drives them nuts?

  2. The Jazz Age Glamour, culture, and excitement!

  3. The New Morality The struggle between tradition and modernity

  4. The New Morality A shift in the beliefs of many Americans during the 1920s on their ideas of family, relationships, gender roles, religion, and especially, war.

  5. Causes for the “New Morality” • World War I • Increasing role of women in politics • Mass Media

  6. The Lost Generation Finding a new meaning of life in postwar America

  7. The Lost Generation • Coined by poet Gertrude Stein • Mostly writers, musicians, and painters • Questioned accepted ideas about reason, progress, religion, anxieties about the future, and fear of the future • Settled in Paris

  8. Existentialism There is no universal understanding or meaning to life. Each person creates his or her own meaning in life through actions and choices taken.

  9. Gertrude Stein Tender 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.”

  10. 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

  11. F. Scott Fitzgerald • The epitome of the youthful, glamorous lifestyle of the era • Coined the term the “Jazz Age” • The Great Gatsby

  12. La Vie Boehme! • "Bohemian" is applied to people who live unconventional, usually artistic, lives. • Greenwich Village (NYC) • Sought to break social barriers, refuting traditional gender norms and sexual stereotypes.

  13. Redefining Femininity The New Morality for Women

  14. Changes in Society • Women in the workforce • During the war, women took over jobs men left behind • After the war, some women remained in the workforce, in subservient positions • Women’s colleges • Before WWI, there was a genuine fear that college made women unfit for marriage and motherhood. • Revealed the new image of the “modern women”: intelligent, independent, and not interested in the domestic life.

  15. Margaret Sanger • Founded the American Birth Control League (would later become Planned Parenthood) • Believed that families standard of living would improve if they limited the number of children they had. • Would later become one of the driving forces for the FDA approval of “The Pill” • Was also a proponent of eugenics, believing that birth control was the best method of stopping the increase of the “unfit” in society.

  16. New Roles in the Home and Family • Women and consumer culture • Became the “purchasing agent” of the family • Household tasks become much easier with electric appliances • No less time spent on housework • Decrease in “domestics” • Romance and relationships • Highly inspired by the romances on the silver screen

  17. The New Girl 1900 1920

  18. What’s wrong with this picture?

  19. The Charleston

  20. Inventions and their effect on culture “Enjoy Now, Pay Later!”

  21. A New Consumer Culture • Exciting new products become available • More disposable income. • Advertised on the radio • People began buying on credit – enjoy now, pay later! • Credit was being applied to all purchases, inflating ideas of the public wealth and security of purchases

  22. What do these have in common?

  23. Pantages Theatre

  24. Putting America on the Move • 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 for $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.”

  25. Effects of the Automobile • 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

  26. 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

  27. NFL Babe Ruth Jack Dempsey

  28. Orteig Prize Charles Lindbergh

  29. Amelia Earhart

  30. Bell Ringer • How did flappers reflect the new morality of the Jazz Age? What conflicts may come as a result of this new image?

  31. The Jazz Age Starts Swingin’ America’s Social Revolution

  32. The Movies

  33. Hunks and Hams Charlie Chaplin Rudolph Valentino Douglas Fairbanks “Fatty” Arbuckle

  34. Glittering Starlets Mary Pickford Marion Davies

  35. The first The Ultimate Flapper! "It" girl Clara Bow

  36. The Jazz Singer – The first “Talkie”

  37. The “Great Experiment”

  38. Moonshining and Bootlegging • With alcohol still being a desirable product, many turned to illegal methods of obtaining it • Moonshining • Bootlegging • Speakeasies

  39. Gangsters • Emergence of a cutthroat black market • Bootleggers began using intimidation and violence to guard their “territory” • Organized crime families took over in major cities • Chicago, NYC

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

  41. Al Capone • The most influential and dangerous gangster • Leader of Chicago’s Southside gang • Suspected of orchestrating numerous murders, but unable to be pinned for the crime. • St. Valentine’s Day Massacre • Eventually convicted of tax evasion, sent to Alcatraz

  42. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre

  43. The Harlem Renaissance Bringing African American culture into the forefront

  44. 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 • Black Star Line • Imprisoned and deported for fraud

  45. 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.

  46. Literature 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? -Langston Hughes

  47. Jazz and Blues

  48. Blues Bessie 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

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