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Redefining the 1920s: The Roaring Twenties' Influence on Popular Culture

Discover how social trends and innovations like consumerism, transportation, mass media, and women's rights shaped the dynamic popular culture of the Roaring Twenties. Explore the impact of the League of Women Voters, the Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance, and the Lost Generation on this transformative era. Uncover the essence of the 1920s through a lens of prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom.

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Redefining the 1920s: The Roaring Twenties' Influence on Popular Culture

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  1. Popular Culture in the Roaring Twenties Chapter 28

  2. Essential Question • What social trends and innovations shaped popular culture during the 1920s?

  3. Roaring Twenties • A nickname given to the 1920s because of the decade’s prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom

  4. Consumerism • New Products (kitchen & household appliances) • Advertising created demand for new products • Increase in use of credit to purchase goods.

  5. Transportation • Affordable Cars (Model T) • Easier to travel and live to the city, suburbanization • More highways built • Travel industry (motels, diners

  6. Mass Media • Radio (Sports, News, shows) • Silent Movies • Pop Culture, exposure to new fashion and ideas

  7. (Women’s Rights)League of Women Voters • A grassroots organization created to educate women about public issues • Women gained the right to vote in 1920

  8. Women’s Rights • Women demonstrated new freedom by wearing shorter dresses, shorter hair, make-up, going out and having fun.

  9. The Jazz Age • Jazz: Music of African American Origin, involves improvisation, blues, and catchy rhythms • Charleston: Jazz inspired dance (fast, kicks, turns)

  10. Harlem Renaissance • An era of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians who gathered in Harlem during the 1920s • Langston Hughes published poems to call for greater racial equality

  11. Lost Generation • a group of young Americans writers who were disillusioned by WWI and the growing consumer culture • F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.E. Cummings

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