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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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Ex.) dance marathons, flagpole sitting
1920’s: Fads and Fashions• Fads caught on quickly during the 1920’s.
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• Flapper – young woman in the 1920’s who declared her independence from traditional rules.
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How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
1) short, bobbed hair
2) bright-red lipstick
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How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
3) short skirts
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How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
4) smoked cigarettes in public
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How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
5) drank alcohol in speakeasies
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How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
6) danced at jazz clubs
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· Jazz music was created by African-Americans by combining African rhythms and European harmonies.
Jazz Age
Ex.) Louis Armstrong was one of the first famous jazz musicians of the 1920’s.
Video: “Tiger Rag” by, Louis Armstrong 1933 (2:55)
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Ex.) the Charleston and the shimmy
· Jazz music brought new forms of dancing.
Video: The Charleston (1:50)
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· Older Americans worried that jazz music was a bad influence on the nation’s young people.
The Jazz Age , 1929 movie poster
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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.
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Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
Examples: Langston Hughes – writer / poet
“I Too” by, Langston HughesI, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.
Tomorrow,I'll be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobody'll dareSay to me,"Eat in the kitchen,"Then.
Besides,They'll see how beautiful I amAnd be ashamed--
I, too, am America.
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Into Bondage (1936)
Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
Examples: Aaron Douglas - painter