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Jazz Age Period

Jazz Age Period . Brianna Sellers Period:6 th Richardson . 1920’s. The 1920s were Broadway's busiest decade, with as many as fifty new musicals opening in a single season. Record numbers of people forked over up to $3.50 a seat!!. The flappers.

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Jazz Age Period

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  1. Jazz Age Period Brianna Sellers Period:6th Richardson

  2. 1920’s The 1920s were Broadway's busiest decade, with as many as fifty new musicals opening in a single season. Record numbers of people forked over up to $3.50 a seat!!

  3. The flappers Covered in silk and fur that clung to her as close as onion skin; with vivid red cheeks and lips, plucked eyebrows and close-fitting helmet of hair; gay, plucky and confident.

  4. Flapper style Wore shorter dresses than their mothers. (9-inch hemline for mom) Short hair and hats to show off short hair Bobbed hair Wore make up Drank and smoked in public

  5. WOMEN GOING TO WORK -Seldom trained women for jobs beyond entry level -Did not pay same wage as men. Married or pregnant often meant you were fired.

  6. WOMEN VOTING!:O -1920 only 35% of the women eligible to vote – did vote. -By 1928 145 women in state legislatures.

  7. Growth of suburbs Electric trolley cars and buses got people from jobs in the city to suburbs quickly and cheaply.

  8. Our hero's !! Charles Lindbergh Lucky Lindy May 20, 1927: First man to fly non-stop New York to Paris. 33 ½ hours THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS – plane Won $25,000

  9. Women heros 1928 – first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane. 1932 – first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. First to fly from Hawaii to California. Amelia Earhart

  10. Jazz heroes Louis Armstrong (1901 – 1974) “Satchmo” and “The Gift” New Orleans to Chicago to the world. Trumpet and singing “scat”

  11. Wheres the jazz? Jazz clubs Artie Shaw – First to use black musicians for white audiences. Benny Goodman – First to take jazz to white America. SWING First racial mixed band.

  12. LITERATURE OF THE JAZZ AGE Upton Sinclair Attacked American society. THE JUNGLE, ELMER GANTRY, MAIN STREET Eugene O’Neill Dark tragedies of everyday American life. A LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

  13. JAZZ AFFECT ON ART Artists were showing the rougher side of life. Edward Hopper

  14. Harlem renaissance 1914: 50,000 African Americans in Harlem. 1930: 200,000 Nora Neale Hurston THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD

  15. LANGTON HUGHES Poet, short story writer, journalist and playwright. Joys and difficulties of being human, American and being black.

  16. OOPS!! -Bars that operated illegally. -To get into a speakeasy – you needed a password or be recognized by a guard. -Sometimes hidden behind legit businesses.

  17. BOOTLEGGERS -Canadians were making whiskey. -Caribbean was making rum. -Smugglers took ships out to sea, met speed boats who outran the Coast Guard to harbors where they transported the alcohol to warehouses.

  18. PROHIBITION The 18th Amendment to the Constitution Made manufacturing of alcohol illegal. Most people chose to ignore it.

  19. JAZZ AGE The radio audience and the African American migration to the cities made jazz popular. Improvisation of music Syncopation – offbeat rhythm.

  20. THAT’S THE JAZZ AGE !!!

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