The Roaring Twenties

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The Roaring Twenties

• Entertainment

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Music

• Jazz music was the new craze in 1920s America.
  This had notes off the beat.
• New composers created a completely new style of
  music.
• This was the first time America had taken the
  lead in a new form of music.

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Film

• The 1920s were a golden age for films
• In 1922, Toll of the Sea became the first all
  colour film.
• In 1926, Don Juan became the first film to use
  music and sound effects.
• By 1929, On with the Show had become the first
  all colour, all sound film.

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All these film studios were founded in the 1920s
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Sport

• The 1920s saw the breakout of sport as a
  pass-time.
• Baseball, American Football, and Boxing were the
  most popular.
• Most cities had a ballpark where people could go
  and play.

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Fenway Park
Wrigley Field
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Literature

• In the 1800s, Europe contained most of the
  worlds great authors. Dickens was English, while
  Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were Russian.
• The 1920s, though, saw a shift as Ernest
  Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald shot to
  prominence.

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Poetry

• Probably the best known poet in the world in the
  twenties was T.S Eliot.
• His set of poems have since become a stage
  musical Cats.

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Dance/ Fashion

• Womens fashion changed a lot in the 1920s.
  Ladies abandoned the corsets and flowing locks of
  times past and wore shorter dresses and shorter
  hairstyles.
• Dancing was fashionable. People went to dance
  halls to foxtrot, waltz, and tango. They also did
  the Charleston.

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Task

• 1)Produce a detailed spider diagram with images
  about why American society was exciting in the
  1920s.
• p.229 sport, flappers, radio, literature,
  poetry
• P.230 film and hollywood
• 2)Produce a newspaper report from a 1920s paper
  about the new wave of entertainment available to
  Americans.
• Try to decide whether you are persuading people
  its a good thing or a bad thing.