WHAT IDEAS/EVENTS DURING THE 1920s ILLUSTRATE THE RURAL/URBAN CONFLICT?

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Daily Quote Question (DQ )
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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 )
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If you have to ask what jazz is, youll 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?
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If you have to ask what jazz is, youll never
know. -Louis Armstrong
Daily Comment Card
1920s
1920s
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
SHIFT IN POPULAR CULTURE, 1920s
-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
-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
SONG FOR THE DAY WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
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If you have to ask what jazz is, youll never
know. -Louis Armstrong
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
SONG FOR THE DAY WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN
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It isn't where you came from, its where you're
going that counts. -ELLA FITZGERALD
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
SONG FOR THE DAY SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
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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.
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1920s decade of change

1. JAZZ AGE
2. CONSUMER CULTURE
3. REVOLUTION IN MORALS
4. MASS COMMUNICATIONS
5. SPORTS HEROES
6. LITERATURE
7. ART

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• 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
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The spread of Jazz
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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 MUSICA BLEND OF BLUES,
JAZZ, AND RAGTIME. SHEET MUSIC WAS ALSO NEEDED
FOR A NEW TYPE OF ENTERTAINMENTVAUDEVILLE
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
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• CONSUMER CULTURE
• -Electricity in homes transformed life for many
  Americans
• refrigerators, vacuums, washing machines
• -Buy on credit/ Advertising!

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AUTOMOBILE -Transformed American society -By
1929, 26.5 million registered -helps steel,
glass, rubber, gasoline construction
(roads) industries -changes courting
(dating) rituals
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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.
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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?vN13I2J
zlcQM
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• MASS COMMUNICATION
• -Radio!!
• -NBC (1924) CBS (1927)
• -First broadcast Nov 2, 1920
• KDKA Pittsburg broadcast presidential
  election results (Harding wins)

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HURRAY FOR HOLLYWOOD -Movies are big
business -Greta Garbo, Rudolf Valentino, Clara
Bow -Talking pictures in 1927
BOW
GARBO
VALENTINO
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• SPORTS HEROES
• -Political heroes give way to sports champions
• -Jack Dempsey (boxing)
• -Gertrude Ederle (swimming)
• -Jim Thorpe (football)
• -Babe Ruth (baseball)
• -Bobby Jones (golf)
• -Babe Diedrickson

DEMPSEY
EDERLE
RUTH
JONES
THORPE
DIEDRICKSON
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THE FIRST BIG SPORTS SCANDAL WAS THE BLACK SOX
SCANDAL IN THE WORLD SERIES, 1919
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CHARLES LINDBERGH
BEST KNOWN HERO OF THE TIME!
1927 flew nonstop across Atlantic
from Long Island to Paris
In March 1932 Lindberghs twenty month old son
was kidnappedit was the most famous kidnapping
and investigation of the time. The babys body
was found in May, but the man responsible (Bruno
Hauptmann) was not arrested until 1934. He was
electrocuted in 1936.
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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.
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HEMINGWAY

• LITERATURE
• -LOST GENERATION
• - Show ALIENATION and
• DISALLUSIONMENT

Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Sinclair
Lewis Ezra Pound T.S. Eliot Eugene ONeill
POUND
FITZGERALD
LEWIS
ELIOT
ONEILL
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HARLEM RENAISSANCE
THE AWAKENING OF AFRICAN- AMERICAN 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
AFRICAN- AMERICAN WOMEN AUTHORS.
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• ART

Frank Lloyd Wright (architect) Edward Hopper
(painter) Georgia OKeeffe (painter)