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Jazz age

Jazz age. $$ expansion. Post-war Causes?. Capital investment Mass production, machines Electricity “Auto” Age. Culture 1920’s: 85% cars 1 in 14 New markets Leisure, travel Social norms. Cities L.A. – 5 th largest Suburbs Excluded minorities, working class Latinos Barrios

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Jazz age

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  1. Jazz age

  2. $$ expansion • Post-war • Causes?

  3. Capital investment • Mass production, machines • Electricity • “Auto” Age

  4. Culture • 1920’s: 85% cars • 1 in 14 • New markets • Leisure, travel • Social norms

  5. Cities • L.A. – 5th largest • Suburbs • Excluded minorities, working class • Latinos • Barrios • N.Y., L.A.

  6. Country Club Plaza, 1922 • K.C. • Shopping center • White Castle, 1921 • First fast food chain

  7. Welfare capitalism • Benefits • 5% of workers • 71% • Below “decent standards”

  8. KKK • Revival • National, middle-class, white-collar • Catholics, Jews, others • 3 million members • Today?

  9. PROHIBITION • Enforcement? • “moonshine”, smuggled • “Speakeasy” • Organized crime • Al Capone • Bootlegging: $$$ profits

  10. + Living standards • Electricity • Appliances

  11. MASS MEDIA • Advertising • Listerine

  12. Radio • NBC, CBS • Shows, music

  13. Flapper • Movies, novels • Young, short skirts

  14. 1920’s Before WW1

  15. NATIONAL CULTURE • Emerging

  16. NATIONAL CULTURE • Emerging • Same experiences

  17. HOLLYWOOD • N.Y. to Hollywood • Russian Jewish immigrants • Consolidated • MGM, Universal • Movie stars • L.A. ideal

  18. HARLEM RENAISSANCE • Harlem • Cultural capital • Black arts movement

  19. Harlem • Intellectuals

  20. Poets: Langston Hughes, Claude McKay • Writers • “Jazz Age” • Louis Armstrong

  21. CLAUDE MCKAY

  22. LOUIS ARMSTRONG

  23. Poets: Langston Hughes, Claude McKay • Writers • “Jazz Age” • Duke Ellington • Young Whites • Alcohol, music • Organized crime • Segregated

  24. Segregation, violence, and racism

  25. Attitudes towards sex • Sex, advertising

  26. Attitudes towards sex • Sex, advertising

  27. YOUNG • Rebellion • Music, style

  28. dating • 1890-1925: common • “calling” • Pre-1880’s • Lower class, urban-industrial • Private to public • Power: women to men • Men’s world, money • Economics?

  29. SLANG • Beef: complaint, to complain • Gold digger: woman who pursues men for $$ • Jack: money • Knock up: sexual innuendo • Pipe down: stop talking • Level with me: be honest • Tight: attractive

  30. LOST GENERATION • Famous writers • Anti-materialism • Hemingway, Fitzgerald

  31. POLITICS • Isolationism • Stock market crash

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