Bellwork!
• Would you rather be strong or clever, why?
Ch 10.4 Culture
Be able to name 3 intellectual and 3
sports related people who innovated
the culture of the 1920s.
Art
• Charles Sheeler
– American Painter and photographer
– Founder of American Modernism
More Art
• Edward Hopper
– American Realist
– Gave his opinion of American Modern life
– Oil Painting, Water colors and etching
Georgia O’Keefe
• Famous for Blossom paintings
• American Modernism
Poets and Writer
• Carl Sandburg: common speech glorify the
midwest
• Willa Cather: life on the great plains
• Poets using clear images to express moments
• Negative effect of “Hollow Man”
– T.S. Elliott
• Ernest Hemingway: A farewell to arms
• Edith Wharton: Age of Innocence
Movies
• Charlie Chapman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79i84xYel
ZI
• 1927 first talkie: Golden Age of Hollywood
Radio Booms
• Jazz Age
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1AcnI0B2-o
– The Everyday Hour
– Amos and Andy
• Mass Media: radio, movies, newspaper and
magazines aimed at a broad audience.
Sports
• Radio brought sports to the forefront
– Babe Ruth: first superstar
– Jack Dempsey: World Champion from 1919 to
1926
– Red Grange (The Ghost)
• Other Sports seen
Ch 10.5 AA Culture
Great Migration
• What was the great migration?
– Led to the Harlem Renaissance
• Flow of AA culture and arts
– Claude McKay: poet described American Racism
– “If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! “
More Writers
• Langston Hughes: African American
Experience in America
• Zora Neale Hurston: Rural AA culture, women
as key roles
Jazz
• Louis Armstrong:
– Introduced Jazz: Rag with Dixieland blues
– Used many solos
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--xy6nxea2A
• Duke Ellington: blend of improvisation and
orchestration with different instruments
– Composed some 6000 pieces
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb2w2m1JmC
Y
Start
• Cotton Club: Club in Harlem (Whites Only)
• Bessie Smith: symbol of soul empress of swing
Politics
• 1919: 1300 AA veterans march to Harlem
• Black Vote:
– Northern Bloc
– First Black Northern Senator (Oscar DePriest)
• Lynching a federal crime
NAACP
• 1922 fought for Lynching bill in the HoR
– Senate knocked it down
• AA flex muscle
– Block appointment of Judge John J. Parker
• Racist and anti labor
• Black Nationalism- black separation from
whites
• Marcus Garvey: Jamaican black leader
– Promotes black pride and unity