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Jazz Age

Jazz Age. By Jessica Gardner and Mishia Spring. Thesis. In the 1920’s, a new musical style and literature swept the nation. Those new styles changed our culture as we know it. Harlem Renaissance. African Americans moved north in hope for better employment.

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Jazz Age

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  1. Jazz Age By Jessica Gardner and Mishia Spring

  2. Thesis • In the 1920’s, a new musical style and literature swept the nation. Those new styles changed our culture as we know it.

  3. Harlem Renaissance • African Americans moved north in hope for better employment. • They brought their culture with them. • They started new forms of music and writing. • After World War 1 to the middle of the 1930’s depression.

  4. Music • The new music form known as jazz. • Jazz music spread through America via radio. • Jazz was influenced from African and Southern US music. • Also influenced other parts of the world. • Spread in New York, Chicago, and Kansas City.

  5. Music • Louis Daniel Armstrong, most famous Jazz musician of the time • Duke Ellington, one of the most influential African Americans of the 20th century

  6. Literature • Reflected on their life-changing experiences and recklessness of peoples lives in the 1920’s. • Showed the dangers of the 1920’s • Showed the excess (money) of the 1920’s • Showed the corruption of post-WWI and the growth of individualism

  7. Literature • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925), the American dream. • Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne (1926), still known today. • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, lost generation of expatriates.

  8. Works Cited • The Jazz Age and Louis Armstrong (The 1920's). The Roaring Twenties. 25 Jan 10. http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/artliter/artslit.htm • Harlem Renaissance. Explore. 25 Jan 10.http://www.42explore2.com/harlem.htm • A Jazz Culture. 25 Jan 10. www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/is3099/jazzcult/20sjazz/jazzculture.html • Jazz Age. Answers. 28 Jan 10. http://www.answers.com/topic/jazz-1

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