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Roaring 20s section 3
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The Jazz Age
The Big Idea
Musicians, artists, actors, and writers contributed to American popular culture in the 1920s.
Main Ideas
• Radio and movies linked the country in a national culture.
• Jazz and blues music became popular nationwide.
• Writers and artists introduced new styles and artistic ideas.
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Main Idea 1:
Radio and movies linked the country in a national culture.
Radio
Movies
Sports
National radio networks, such as NBC and CBS, formed.
New access to music, news, political speeches, sports broadcasts, and more
Allowed Americans everywhere to share common experiences
Opened new worlds for audiences
1927 movie The Jazz Singer was the first talkie, or motion picture with sound
Became big business
Movie stars became national heroes.
Fans packed stadiums and listened on radios as athletes played and broke new records.
Baseball was incredibly popular and had its own celebrities, such as Babe Ruth.
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What new forms of entertainment dominated American society during the 1920s? (Choose 3)
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Radio
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Television
C
Internet
D
Movies
E
Reading
F
Sports
Family listening to the radio in the 1920s
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1920s theater
Famous actress from the 1920s
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Main Idea 2:
Jazz and blues music became popular nationwide.
• An explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the 1920s a nickname– the Jazz Age.
• Jazz developed in New Orleans.
• Blending of African American, European, and West African harmonies and rhythms
• Jazz was popular with young Americans.
• Loved the music and the fast­paced dances that swept the nation
• Jazz musicians were innovators.
• Artists like Louis Armstrong and Edward “Duke” Ellington made major contributions to music.
• Blues music also became popular in the 1920s
• Originated in the rural South of the Mississippi Delta
• Began as an expression of the suffering of African Americans during slavery
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Jazz developed in New Orleans and it is a blending of African American, European, and West African harmonies.
True
False
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Main Idea 3:
Writers and artists introduced new styles and artistic ideas.
• The Harlem neighborhood of New York City became the center of the Harlem Renaissance , a period of African American artistic accomplishment.
• Many African Americans came to Harlem in the Great Migration.
• Harlem Renaissance writers made lasting contributions to American culture.
• Langston Hughes wrote poems, plays, and novels about African American life.
• Claude McKay was a poet and activist who spoke out against racial discrimination.
• Zora Neale Hurston’s writings reflected the experiences of African American women.
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This is a period of African American artistic accomplishment that was centered in a New York City neighborhood.
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New York Renaissance
Harlem Arts
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Harlem Renaissance
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Harlem Recovery
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The Lost Generation
• Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s became known as the Lost Generation.
• Wrote of their experiences living in the United States and abroad
• Often felt feelings of disillusionment with American society
• Many moved to Paris in the 1920s and formed a community of expatriates, people who leave their home country to live elsewhere.
• Writers of the Lost Generation
• Ernest Hemingway wrote short stories and novels and gained fame for his powerful and direct writing style.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the loss of morality during the Jazz Age in his novel The Great Gatsby.
• Sinclair Lewis was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in literature.
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Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s became known as this.
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expatriates
B
Jazz Age
C
Writers
D
Lost Generation
Earnest Hemingway
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New Directions in Art
Painting
• Painters experimented with new styles.
• Edward Hopper painted images of loneliness of modern urban life.
• Georgia O’Keeffe was known for detailed paintings of flowers and of the Southwest.
Architecture Architects of the 1920s embraced a new style called art deco.
Buildings constructed in this style had clean, sharp lines resembling machines.
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This artist was known for her detailed paintings of flowers and the Southwest. She grew up in Wisconsin.
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Georgia O'Keefe
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Langston Hughes
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Earnest Hemingway
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Opinion­ Do you think the new forms of entertainment affected American lives greatly?
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No
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