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POP CULTURE OF THE ROARING TWENTIES

POP CULTURE OF THE ROARING TWENTIES. By: Ashanti Brown. 1920s. Better known as “The Roaring Twenties” because it was a time of economic prosperity where culture, music, motion pictures, trendy fashions and arts started to become about. AKA the “Jazz Age”

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POP CULTURE OF THE ROARING TWENTIES

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  1. POP CULTURE OF THE ROARING TWENTIES By: Ashanti Brown

  2. 1920s Better known as “The Roaring Twenties” because it was a time of economic prosperity where culture, music, motion pictures, trendy fashions and arts started to become about. AKA the “Jazz Age” Jazz music was the most popular form of music in this period.

  3. Dance clubs held the most activity in the 1920s. Majority of the population enjoyed expressing through dancing.

  4. POPULAR DANCES Most popular dances were performed with partners. • The Charleston • The Quickstep • The Shimmy

  5. The Famous Charleston Dance

  6. FASHION • Fashion for women changed in the 1920s due to the broadcasting of fashion in movies and magazines. They were called flappers.

  7. Flappers listened to jazz, wore their hair in short bobs and skimpy corset dresses.

  8. POPULAR MUSIC • Known as the “Jazz Age” • Blues • Country

  9. SOME FAMOUS MUSIC ARTISTS Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington Sidney Bechet Paul Whiteman Bing Crosby

  10. THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE After the war, African- Americans started looking for more employment in other areas…

  11. This brought them to bring their music and culture w/ them. This became known as The Harlem Renaissance

  12. ART DECO This era encouraged people to become more expressive. Outstanding architectures and designs were constructed.

  13. CINEMA Films were soon upgraded with color and sound effects. Cartoons became popular in movie theatres.

  14. LITERARY Creativity lead to the makings of great literary books and poems.

  15. Radios & TV programming became popular towards everyone especially middle class people.

  16. QUOTES • “The business of America is business.”- President Calvin Coolidge • “Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.”- David Rockefeller • “For some reason, I just loved it. There was a sense of optimism and joy in the 1920s.”- Sandy Wilson • “You are all a lost generation.”- Gertrude Stein (Hemigway’s quote in The Sun Also Rises.) • “Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.”- F Scott Fitzgerald • “It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.”- Georgia O’ Keefe • “None of your beeswax”- slang of the 1920s. • “ It’s in the berries.”- slang of the 1920s.

  17. CREDITS • Google Images • Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myq6hg2gcWw http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/artliter/artslit.htm http://www.shmoop.com/1920s/summary.html http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgiaok162627.html

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