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Daily Quote &Question (DQ )
“It isn't where you came from, its
where you're going that counts.”
-ELLA FITZGERALD
SONG FOR THE DAY: SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
WHAT IDEAS/EVENTS DURING THE 1920s
ILLUSTRATE THE RURAL/URBAN CONFLICT?
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Daily Quote &Question (DQ )
“If you have to ask what jazz
is, you’ll never know.”
-Louis Armstrong
SONG FOR THE DAY: WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
(SO YOU WILL ASSOCIATE JAZZ WITH NEW ORLEANS)
WHY WAS THE SCOPES TRIAL IMPORTANT?
Daily Comment & Card
1920s
HARLEM
RENAISSANCE
-Growth of African American
literature and arts
-Center of the movement was
Harlem, New York
-Southern African Americans brought
jazz to Harlem
-Writers from this period included
Langston Hughes, Zora Neal
Hurston and Claude McKay
-Musicians included Duke Ellington,
Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong
“If you
have to
ask what
jazz is,
you’ll
never
know.”
-Louis Armstrong
SONG FOR THE DAY: WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
Daily Comment & Card
1920s
SHIFT IN
POPULAR
CULTURE, 1920s
-Change from entertainment through home
and small social groups to commercial,
profit-making activities
-Movies attracted audiences and Hollywood
became the movie center of America
-Professional athletics grew in participation
and popularity, especially baseball, boxing
and football
-Tabloids and magazines increased in
popularity
It isn't
where
you came
from, its
where
you're
going
that
counts.”
-ELLA
FITZGERALD
SONG FOR THE DAY: SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
Daily Comment & Card
1920s
1920s
HARLEM
RENAISSANCE
-Growth of African American
literature and arts
-Center of the movement was
Harlem, New York
-Southern African Americans brought
jazz to Harlem
-Writers from this period included
Langston Hughes, Zora Neal
Hurston and Claude McKay
-Musicians included Duke Ellington,
Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong
SHIFT IN
POPULAR
CULTURE, 1920s
-Change from entertainment through home
and small social groups to commercial,
profit-making activities
-Movies attracted audiences and Hollywood
became the movie center of America
-Professional athletics grew in participation
and popularity, especially baseball, boxing
and football
-Tabloids and magazines increased in
popularity
“If you
have to
ask what
jazz is,
you’ll
never
know.”
-Louis Armstrong
SONG FOR THE DAY: WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO:
-DESCRIBE THE CHANGE IN CULTURE
THAT DEVELOPED IN THE 1920s.
-IDENTIFY THE IMPORTANCE OF MASS
COMMUNICATION IN THE 20s
-EVALUATE THE CHANGE IN HEROES
DURING THIS TIME PERIOD AND
IDENTIFY MAJOR HEROS OF THE
TIME.
-ANALYZE IMPORTANT TRENDS AND
ARTISTS IN LITERATURE AND
ART.
A. JAZZ AGE
B. CONSUMER CULTURE
C. REVOLUTION IN MORALS
D. MASS COMMUNICATIONS
E. SPORTS HEROES
F. LITERATURE
G. ART
A.JAZZ AGE
-This was the music of youth, “new” & “modern”
expressed rebellion
-Phonographs & radio made it widely available
BILLIE HOLIDAY
ELLA FITZGERALD
DUKE ELLINGTON
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
JOSEPHINE BAKER
DIZZY GILLESPIE
FATZ WALLER
The spread of Jazz
TIN PAN ALLEY
AS HOME PIANOS BECAME POPULAR AFTER THE
CIVIL WAR A DEMAND FOR SHEET MUSIC WAS
CREATED. THIS SECTION OF NEW YORK CITY
BEGAN TO EMERGE AS THE CAPTIAL OF MUSIC
PUBLISHING. IT WAS WHERE SONG-WRITING AND
MUSICAL IDEAS MIXED TO CREATE AMERICAN
POPULAR MUSIC—A BLEND OF BLUES, JAZZ, AND
RAGTIME.
SHEET MUSIC WAS ALSO NEEDED FOR A NEW TYPE
OF ENTERTAINMENT—VAUDEVILLE SHOWS.
SONGS LIKE IN THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME ,
GIVE MY REGARDS TO BRAODWAY AND SHINE ON
HARVEST MOON WERE ALL WRITTEN FOR
VAUDEVILLE. FAMOUS SONGWRITERS LIKE IRVING
BERLIN, COLE PORTER, SCOTT JOPLIN AND GEORGE
GERSHWIN EMERGED FROM THIS AREA.
BERLIN
JOPLIN
PORTER
B.CONSUMER CULTURE
-Electricity in homes transformed life for many
Americans
refrigerators, vacuums, washing machines
-Buy on credit/ Advertising!
AUTOMOBILE
-Transformed American society
-By 1929, 26.5 million registered
-helps steel, glass, rubber,
gasoline & construction
(roads) industries
-changes courting (dating) rituals
A
Henry Ford was the founder of
Ford Motors, which innovated
the auto industry with the
assembly line and invented the
Model T and Model A cars
which had an affordable price.
C. REVOLUTION IN MORALS
-Revolt against sexual taboos
-Freud
(sexual repression = mental illness)
-Margaret Sanger (birth control)
-FLAPPERS
Dresses hemmed at the knee
“Bobbing” hair
Smoking
Driving
CHARLESTON:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N13I2JzlcQ
M
D. MASS COMMUNICATION
-Radio!!
-NBC (1924) CBS (1927)
-First broadcast Nov 2, 1920
KDKA Pittsburg broadcast
presidential election results
(Harding wins)
HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD…
-Movies are big business
-Greta Garbo, Rudolf Valentino, Clara Bow
-Talking pictures in 1927
GARBO
BOW
VALENTINO
E. SPORTS HEROES
-Political heroes give way to sports champions
-Jack Dempsey (boxing)
DEMPSEY
-Gertrude Ederle (swimming)
EDERLE
-Jim Thorpe (football)
-Babe Ruth (baseball)
-Bobby Jones (golf)
RUTH
-Babe Diedrickson
DIEDRICKSON
JONES
THORPE
THE FIRST BIG SPORTS SCANDAL WAS THE
“BLACK SOX” SCANDAL IN THE WORLD
SERIES, 1919…
CHARLES LINDBERGH
BEST KNOWN HERO OF THE TIME!
1927
flew nonstop
across Atlantic
from Long Island
to Paris…
In March 1932 Lindbergh’s twenty month old son was kidnapped—it was
the most famous kidnapping and investigation of the time. The baby’s
body was found in May, but the man responsible (Bruno Hauptmann) was
not arrested until 1934. He was electrocuted in 1936.
Glenn Curtiss was known as the “Father of
Naval Aviation” and the “Founder of the
American Aircraft Industry”.
His company built aircraft for the
U.S. Army and Navy, and, during
the years leading up to World War
I, his experiments with seaplanes
led to advances in naval aviation.
Curtiss civil and military aircraft
were predominant after WWI and
during WWII.
HEMINGWAY
F. LITERATURE
-LOST GENERATION
- Show ALIENATION and
DISALLUSIONMENT
Ernest Hemingway
POUND
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sinclair Lewis
Ezra Pound
FITZGERALD
LEWIS
T.S. Eliot
Eugene O’Neill
ELIOT
O’NEILL
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
THE AWAKENING OF AFRICANAMERICAN CULTURE (INCLUDING
JAZZ MUSIC) HAS BEEN CALLED THE
HARLEM RENAISSANCE.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS AND POETS
LIKE LANGSTON HUGHES EXPRESSED PRIDE IN
THEIR HERITAGE. COUNTEE CULLEN WAS A
LEADING POET AND ZORA NEALE
HURSTON BECAME ONE OF THE
FIRST SUCCESSFUL AFRICANAMERICAN WOMEN AUTHORS.
G. ART
Frank Lloyd Wright
Edward Hopper
(architect)
(painter)
Georgia O’Keeffe
(painter)