Objective: To examine the cultural changes brought
about by the Jazz Age.
Do Now: Define the term fad, then make a list of fads
that you know of.
Fad – activity or fashion that is very popular for a short time
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1920’s: Fads and Fashions
• Fads caught on quickly during the 1920’s.
Ex.) dance marathons, flagpole sitting
How about flagpole skating?
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• Flapper – young woman in the 1920’s who declared her
independence from traditional rules.
How did
flappers
rebel
against
traditional
ways of
thinking?
1) short,
bobbed
hair
2) bright-red
lipstick
How did flappers rebel
against traditional ways
of thinking?
3) short skirts
How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of
thinking?
4) smoked cigarettes in public
How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of
thinking?
5) drank alcohol in speakeasies
(left) Latest thing
in flasks. A dancer
shows off the
garter flask fad in
Washington,
D.C.(Jan.26,
1926)
(right) Woman
putting flask in
her Russian boot,
Washington, D.C.
(Jan. 21, 1922)
How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of
thinking?
6) danced at jazz clubs
Louise Brooks, 1920’s
Video: Flappers – 1920’s (6:24)
Jazz Age
· Jazz music was created
by African-Americans
by combining African
rhythms and European
harmonies.
Ex.) Louis Armstrong
was one of the first
famous jazz musicians
of the 1920’s.
Video: “Tiger Rag” by,
Louis Armstrong 1932
(2:57)
· Jazz music brought new
forms of dancing.
Ex.) the Charleston and the
shimmy
Video: The Charleston –
Harlem, NY, 1950’s (1:50)
Contemporary Application:
Video: Get Lite – Bronx,
NY, 2007 (4:13)
· Older Americans worried
that jazz music was a bad
influence on the nation’s
young people.
The Jazz Age , 1929
movie poster
Audio: Roll ‘em Girls, Roll ‘em, performed by Billy Murray (1925)
Listen girls Listen girls, I've a word for you
just because you're up to date and do the things you do
Don't let anyone tell you that you don't act nice
You're as sweet as grandma was so take my advice
Roll 'Em Girls Roll 'Em Go ahead an Roll 'Em
Roll them down and show your pretty knees
Roll 'Em Girls Roll 'Em, Everybody roll em
Roll em high or low just as you please
Don't let people tell you that it's shocking
Save your sweeties picture on your stocking
Laugh at ma, laugh at pa, give them all the ha ha
Roll em girlies roll ‘em roll your own
Roll 'Em Girls Roll 'Em, Go ahead an Roll 'Em
Roll them down and please the traffic cop
Roll 'Em Girls Roll 'Em, Everybody roll em
When you cross the street the traffic stops
Even grouchy traffic cops get jolly
When they see you step into a trolley
Red light's on, Red light's off
Cops are only human
Roll em girlies roll ‘em roll your own
Listen girls Listen girls, When you bobbed your hair
You were criticized a lot, But still you didn't care
When you shortened your dresses, You gave us some shock
But we never thought that soon, You'd be wearing socks!
Roll 'Em Girls Roll 'Em, Go ahead and Roll 'Em
In the winter spring summer or fall
Roll 'Em Girls Roll 'Em, Everybody roll ‘em
Anywhere or time or place at all
Young girls, old girls, sweethearts wives and mothers
Young maids, old maids, even our grandmothers
I well know rain or snow, Girlies must be stylish
Roll em girlies roll ‘em roll your own
Roll 'Em Girls Roll 'Em
Go ahead and Roll 'Em
Roll em where you think they look the best
Roll 'Em Girls Roll 'Em
Everybody roll em
Roll em north and south and east and west
Nowadays you girlies have your freedom
Don't wear things if you don't think you need them!
Laugh at ma, laugh at pa
Give them all the ha ha
Roll em girlies roll ‘em roll your own!
Harlem
Renaissance –
flowering of African
American culture in
the 1920’s
Examples: Countee
Cullen – writer/poet
“Incident” by, Countee Cullen
Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.
Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, but he poked out
His tongue, and called me, "Nigger."
I saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember.
Harlem
Renaissance –
flowering of African
American culture in
the 1920’s
Examples: Langston
Hughes – writer / poet
“Harlem” by, Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture
in the 1920’s
Examples: Zora Neale
Hurston – writer / poet
“The whole matter revolves
around the self-respect of my
people. How much satisfaction
can I get from a court order for
somebody to associate with me
who does not wish me near
them?”
- Zora Neale Hurston (1955)
Harlem
Renaissance –
flowering of African
American culture in
the 1920’s
Examples: Aaron
Douglas - painter
Into Bondage (1936)
The Harlem Renaissance (2:53)