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THE ROARING 1920’S

3. 2. 1. THE ROARING 1920’S. THE JAZZ AGE. Duke Ellington Jazz band leader and composer Louis Armstrong Jazz trumpet player Jelly Role Morton Jazz pianist. Jazz Singers. Bessie Smith “Empress of the Blues” Ethel Waters. Jazz Music.

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THE ROARING 1920’S

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  4. THE ROARING1920’S

  5. THE JAZZ AGE • Duke Ellington • Jazz band leader and composer • Louis Armstrong • Jazz trumpet player • Jelly Role Morton • Jazz pianist

  6. Jazz Singers • Bessie Smith “Empress of the Blues” • Ethel Waters

  7. Jazz Music Jazz music in the twenties was a mixture of European harmonies and African rhythms. Some of the lyrics were blends of former slave work songs as well as church hymns.

  8. In the United States and Canada the 1920s was the era of the flapper, a young woman who embraced the radical new clothing fashions. Flappers wore short dresses that were straight up and down. Waistlines moved downward to the hips, creating a tubular silhouette, sometimes made even more boyish by the use of a flattening brassiere. Many women cut their hair short in a chin-length, straight hairstyle known as a bob. Over their bobbed hair, they wore a close-fitting, helmet-shaped hat called a cloche. A frequently heard complaint was that women looked like boys.

  9. THE CHARLESON WAS THE DANCE CRAZE OF THE 1920’S

  10. SPORTS FIGURES • Babe Ruth 714 homeruns. 60 in a single season • Knute Rockne legendary player and coach, forward pass

  11. SPORTS FIGURES • Jack Dempsey “Manassa Mauler" heavyweight champ. • Manowar, a triple crown winning horse of the 1920’s

  12. SOCIAL CHANGES • Scopes Trial, prosecution, in 1925, in Dayton, Tennessee, of a high school biology teacher who taught the theory of evolution. The teacher, John T. Scopes (1900-1970), was accused of having violated the Butler Act, a Tennessee law that forbade the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools because it contradicted the account of creation in the Bible. The trial received worldwide publicity and was conducted in a circus like atmosphere. The press dubbed it the Monkey Trial because, according to popular belief, evolution meant that humans were descended from monkeys.

  13. As people in the 1920’s began to embrace morality, one group whose numbers grew rapidly was The KKK. In 1925 the Klan marched in Washington DC with some 250,ooo members. The largest of any Klan activity.

  14. MEDICINE & SCIENCE • Synthetic fibers (nylon and rayon) • Cellophane wrap • Iron lung (respirator) • Penicillin

  15. PROHIBITION Passage of the 18th amendment made it ill-leagal to sell, manufacture or transport alcohol. This lead to some of most crime ridden years in history.

  16. 19TH AMENDMENT The 19th Amendment was that amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave women the right to vote. This is another of the many examples of CHANGE in America.

  17. Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly across the Atlantic Ocean non-stop from New York to Paris in 33 1/2 hours. Lindbergh and his plane “Spirit of St. Louis” opened the doors for future trans-atlantic commercial flights in the 1930’s. Lindbergh’s historic flight took place on May 20th 1927.

  18. KDKA This was a station in Pittsburgh that was one of the first stations to follow a certain format as well as follow a specific play list WWJ Like KDKA this was a station out of Detroit that too had a certain format and playlist. Americans tuned in by the millions to hear broadcasts as well as boxing, baseball, and college football. RADIO STATIONS

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