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The twenties

The twenties. World War I is the defining event that set the “Roaring Twenties” or “The Jazz Age” into motion. Economic prosperity. ELECTRICITY. CONSUMER SPENDING. Cities took their modern shape. The radio. entertainment. The movies.

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The twenties

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  1. The twenties World War I is the defining event that set the “Roaring Twenties” or “The Jazz Age” into motion.
  2. Economic prosperity
  3. ELECTRICITY
  4. CONSUMER SPENDING
  5. Cities took their modern shape
  6. The radio
  7. entertainment
  8. The movies
  9. http://www.neajazzintheschools.org/listen/listenpop.php?tk=cd1_t25 http://www.neajazzintheschools.org/listen/listenpop.php?tk=cd1_t25
  10. The symbol of the new freedom = the flapper
  11. Louise brooks
  12. The flapper "They're all desperadoes, these kids, all of them with any life in their veins; the girls as well as the boys; maybe more than the boys." 
 Warner Fabian Lovely, expensive, and about nineteen." 
 F. Scott Fitzgerald's description of the ideal flapper
  13. THE FLAPPER by Dorothy Parker The Playful flapper here we see, 
The fairest of the fair. 
She's not what Grandma used to be, 
-- You might say, au contraire. Her girlish ways may make a stir, 
Her manners cause a scene, 
But there is no more harm in her 
Than in a submarine. She nightly knocks for many a goal 
The usual dancing men. 
Her speed is great, but her control Is something else again.
Allspotlights focus on her pranks. 
All tongues her prowess herald. 
For which she well may render thanks 
To God and Scott Fitzgerald. Her golden rule is plain enough - 
Just get them young and treat them rough.
  14. But underneath the “roar”the twenties dark side PROHIBITION CAUSED ORGANIZED CRIME
  15. Which spawned… Speak-easies Rum-Runners Bootleggers Moonshine Rotgut Corrupt Law Enforcement Organized Crime “Massacres” “Fixed” betting
  16. The “dark side” of discrimination Anti-immigration Immigration Acts of 1920 and 1924 Deportations of “anarchists” Trials of undesirables Sacco and Vanzetti Racial discrimination The Ku Klux Klan Defeat of anti-lynching laws
  17. All of which came to a “Crashing” halt The Stock Market crash in 1929 brought about a sudden, long lasting reversal in the materially driven, “live for today” mentality that had overtaken America’s middle and upper classes in the 1920s.
  18. Sometimes literature reflects society; sometimes it rejects society What happened to American Literature do in the 1920s?
  19. The roaring twenties Realism evolves into modernism 1910 - 1930
  20. modernism A broad range of artists and movements, led by “The Lost Generation” A break with the style, form and content of the 19th century Impacted by psychology Stream of consciousness: follows the random thoughts of man Abstract, fragmentary Reflects the bewilderment of the age in sometimes intentionally puzzling thoughts
  21. The lost generation Term used to describe the generation of writers active immediately after World War I. Refers specifically to American expatriate writers associated with 1920s Paris, especially Hemingway and Fitzgerald. and including T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
  22. Who were they? Characteristics of "Lost Generation" authors

~ sought the meaning of life 

~drank a lot 

~frequent love affairs 

~many of the finest literary masterpieces were written during this period 

~rejected modern American materialism 

~lived in Paris
  23. F. Scott Fitzgerald In This Side of Paradise, Fitzgerald writes about: A generation that found all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in man shaken. The phrase signifies a disillusioned postwar generation characterized by lost values, lost belief in the idea of human progress, and a mood of futility and despair leading to hedonism.
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