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The Jazz Age

The Jazz Age. Section 9.2. Today’s Agenda. 9.2 Slide Show Presentations Homework Read 9.3. Define materialistic. Placing high value on the purchasing of material things Characteristics of 1920s. What was the Lost Generation?.

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The Jazz Age

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  1. The Jazz Age Section 9.2

  2. Today’s Agenda • 9.2 Slide Show • Presentations • Homework • Read 9.3

  3. Define materialistic. • Placing high value on the purchasing of material things • Characteristics of 1920s

  4. What was the Lost Generation? • Expatriate writers and artists who left America and criticized its materialism • Said America was “enemy of the artist, of the man who cannot produce something tangible…” • Hemmingway • The Sun Also Rises • Novels portray lost innocence of post war generation • F. Scot Fitzgerald • The Great Gatsby • Discusses the empty lives of wealthy Americans

  5. How did Americans entertain themselves during the 1920s? 1of 2 slides • Era of the silent movies • Theaters • opened 1-11 PM everyday • $.10 per seat • Glamorous to lower classes • Criticized for corrupting youth • Cult of Stardom • Read gossip columns written about stars lives • Tried to imitated hairstyles, fashion Clara Bow

  6. The Silver Screen

  7. How did Americans entertain themselves during the 1920s? • Spectator Sports • Baseball • Babe Ruth • Bambino, Sultan of Swat • Boxing • Jack Dempsey • “Manassas Mauler” • World Heavyweight Champion (1919 and 1926) • Fight with Gene Tunney viewed as battle between Modernists and Traditionalists

  8. Sports Heroes

  9. How did music change during the 1920s? • Blues and jazz • Blues • Derived from work songs of slaves • Jazz • Born in New Orleans • No written notes • Louis Armstrong • The Charleston • Dance with crossing hands, knocking knees • Radios • began to become popular

  10. Jazz

  11. Radio

  12. What did people read during the 20s? • High literacy rate • Reader’s Digest, Time Magazine created • Tabloids • Published scandals, fads, dance marathons • Advertisements • Spawned from the Committee of Public Safety • Told Americans what they needed, wanted

  13. Creature Comforts & Consumerism

  14. Who was Langston Hughes? • The night is beautiful, • So the faces of my people. • The stars are beautiful, • So the eyes of my people • Beautiful, also, is the sun. • Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people. • 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? • Novelist & Poet during of the Harlem Renaissance • flowering of African American art, literature, music and culture in Harlem • Part of the “New Negro” movement • Proud to be black • “black is beautiful” • Urged African Americans to reach their American Dream

  15. Harlem Renaissance

  16. Conclusion • The Jazz Age was viewed by traditionalists as an attack on tradition American values

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