Transcript AHON Chapter 22 Section 3 Lecture Notes

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Objectives
• Describe the new fads and heroes that emerged
during the 1920s and how they affected
American culture.
• Identify the origins, importance, and spread of a
new musical style—jazz.
• Explain how new literature styles described
American society in a new, more critical way.
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Terms and People
• Charles Lindbergh – the first airplane pilot to
fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean
• jazz – a style of music developed in New
Orleans in the 1920s
• Sinclair Lewis – author of Babbit, a novel
about the hypocrisies of middle-class culture
• Langston Hughes – Harlem Renaissance poet
whose poems express racial pride
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What arts and culture symbolized the
Jazz Age?
The 1920s produced a burst of cultural change
and artistic creativity.
New heroes
captured the
spirit of the
time.
Jazz music
was created
in New
Orleans.
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Writers
produced
enduring
literary works.
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During the 1920s, feelings of optimism ran high.
Many Americans expressed their new exuberance
through dance.
Dances such as
the Charleston
Dance
marathons
Americans participated in other amusing fads as well.
The Chinese
game of mahjongg
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Flagpole sitting
competitions
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Sports entertainment also gained popularity at this time,
and sports heroes became celebrities.
Baseball player Babe
Ruth was one such
hero.
The mass media
made Ruth a style
setter. Millions of
fans copied his style.
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Charles Lindbergh was the most beloved hero of
the time.
In 1927, he
made the first
nonstop flight
across the
Atlantic.
He became an instant
hero. New York City
held a huge parade in
his honor.
Lindbergh symbolized American energy and
optimism.
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The 1920s also saw the creation of a new
musical sound: jazz. Jazz combined elements of
music from around the world.
Jazz Music
West African
rhythms
Caribbean
rhythms
Southern work
chants and
spirituals
European
harmonies
Jazz was created by black musicians in the port
city of New Orleans, where these cultures met.
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Jazz music gained popularity among African
American audiences.
Many African American
jazz musicians became
famous.
Trumpet player
Louis Armstrong
Band leader
Duke Ellington
Singer
Bessie Smith
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Jazz quickly spread beyond the African American
community.
People all around
America heard
jazz on the radio.
White composers,
band leaders, and
audiences embraced
jazz.
Jazz became one of the most important
American contributions to world culture.
The 1920s became known as the “Jazz Age.”
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Jazz music provoked both positive and
negative reactions.
Many young people
found jazz music
exciting.
Many older Americans
found jazz rhythms
jarring.
They enjoyed its
emphasis on
improvisation and
experimentation.
Some thought its
emphasis on pleasure
was a bad influence
on the young.
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Like music, American literature flourished during
the 1920s.
Many writers seemed
disillusioned by the
postwar generation.
They complained that
Americans had become
greedy and selfish after
World War I.
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Many writers acted as social critics, writing novels
that pointed out society’s flaws.
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Some writers found American society so
intolerable that they became expatriates, people
who leave their own country to live abroad.
Ernest Hemingway
lived for a time
with American
expatriates in
France.
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This
experience
is reflected
in his novel,
The Sun Also
Rises.
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During the 1920s, a vibrant African American
culture grew in Harlem, a part of New York City.
Writers
Musicians
Poets
During the Harlem Renaissance, African
American artists expressed the hope of black
Americans and reacted against prejudice.
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Writers were an important part of the
Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes
wrote poems that
expressed racial pride.
He wanted his poems to
sound like jazz music.
James Weldon Johnson
combined poetry and
politics. He also worked
as an organizer for the
NAACP.
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Zora Neale Hurston was one of the most important
women writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
Hurston recorded folk
songs and folk tales
to preserve and
analyze them.
She is most
remembered for her
novel, Their Eyes
Were Watching God.
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