Social Changes in the 1920's
Womens Roles Demographics Lifestyles
* Flappers influence * More people move from * Buses begin to replace
women's fashion, rural to urban areas trolleys
behavior * Rural-urban economic * Automobiles increase
* More women enter gap widens people's mobility
the work force * Morals and manners * Interest in sports
* Women's vote differ between rural increases
gradually influence and urban areas
politics * African Americans
migrate north
* Suburbs grow
13-2 Overhead Notes
readership increases; coverage of
shared information entertainment
increases news increases
Magazines Newspapers
Mass Media
Radio Movies
Broadcasts popularize "Talkies fascinate
jazz music American public
13-2 Board Notes
Jazz is King in the 1920'2
Why? 1) radio
2) African Americans move to cities
National Craze
1) youg people loved it (new dances)
2) too risque??
Some believed that jazz encouraged immoral behaviors??
Jazz Influence
1) other forms of music
a mix of symphonic and jazz - George Gershwin
souther blues - african americans
2) Painting showed the tougher side of American life
along with natural beauty within America (Georgia O'Keeffe)
3) Literature began to attack American society for it's negatives such as
government corruption and the increasing gap between rich and poor.
(Sinclair Lewis).
Members of the "Lost Generation" - they felt disconnected from the boreish
societal standards in America post WWI
Ernest Hemmingway - writing helped to create the flapper craze
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Harlem Renassaince (re-birth)
celebration of black culture
being black and being female (Zora Neale Hurst)
the basic difficulties of being;
human
American
black
