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THE INTERWAR YEARS. CHANGES IN CULTURE. SOCIAL CHANGES. MUSIC. Before the War: Romantic. Post War: Jazz. Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington African Influence Reflects racial and class mixing during the war. Strauss Blue Danube Brahms Long Instrumental pieces Recurring themes Emotional.
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THE INTERWAR YEARS CHANGES IN CULTURE
MUSIC Before the War: Romantic Post War: Jazz Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington African Influence Reflects racial and class mixing during the war • Strauss Blue Danube • Brahms • Long Instrumental pieces • Recurring themes • Emotional
Women Before the war After the war
Women Before the war Women after the war Gained the vote Had become accustomed to working during the war Gaining political power and social freedoms Flappers • Not allowed to vote • Upper and middle class women did not work outside the home • Often not allowed to own or inherit property
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Major scientific advancements Technology Cars Radio Film Washing machines Vacuums Electricity • Penicillin • Radioactivity • Theory of relativity
ART BEFORE THE WAR Monet: Impressionism Degas: Impressionism
ART AFTER THE WAR Kandisky: Bauhaus Picasso: Cubism
ART Max Ernst Surrealism Chagall: Surrealism
Literature After the War Loss of faith: T.S. Elliot “Hollow Man” All Quiet on the Western Front "The war has ruined us for everything." - Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5"We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5 • “This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. “
Freud and Psychoanalysis • The study of the mind • Why do we behave the way we do • Is there a subconscious that makes us do things we arent really thinking about • And now, I think, the meaning of evolution of civilization is no longer obscure to us. It must present the struggle between Eros and Death, between the instinct of life and the instinct of destruction, as it works itself out in the human species. This struggle is what all life essentially consists of, and the evolution of civilization may therefore be simply described as the struggle for life of the human species.
ENGLAND • Labor party gains strength. • Britain moves toward socialism---redistribution of wealth • Workers strike 1926---English government cracks down and makes anti union laws • 1916-1922---Irish start war and win independence
FRANCE • Political parties fight for power • Government power changes hand repeatedly
USA • Emerges strong from war • Isolationism • “Red Scare”—conservative anti communist feelings • Immigration laws restrict immigration from southern and eastern Europe
Germany • Kaiser fled at end of war Weimar Republic: Democracy replaces empire Leaders of the republic signed the treaty
Post war economic issues • Low wages—leads to strikes • Unemployment • Overproduction • War debt
THE GREAT DEPRESSION • 1929—US Stock Market crashes • World wide depression follows • Economic problems worsen • Democracies begin to fail