HAPPY MONDAY We gone go over yo World War I

testesses.

THE 1920SThe Rise of Modernism and Mass

Culture

REMEMBER FROM EARLY 20S…

Return to NormalcyNativism IsolationismPrejudiceAnti-ImmigrationHostility

OBJECTIVES 7c. Evaluate the role mass media has

played in shaping perceptions toward certain policies, social groups, other nations, and political ideas.

7d. Contrast modernism and traditionalism relating to social change.

THERE WAS ALSO A CULTURAL CONFLICT WITHIN AMERICA

Traditional/Fundamental Views

Modernist Views

TRADITIONAL V MODERN Conservative

Women Prohibition and

Gambling Restrictions

Religion Theatre and

Symphony Newspapers

Loose Women Speakeasies and

Gambling Halls Evolution Talkies and the

Jazz Age Radio

Old School

New School

TRADITIONAL WOMEN V MODERN WOMEN

Conservative women were traditionally expected to act a certain way. Don’t drink Don’t smoke Don’t be loud Dress Conservatively Don’t work and live

independently.

Flappers were much more loose and casual with the way they carried themselves. They Drank They Smoked They were outgoing. Dressed

Provocatively Worked and made

their own money.

TRADITIONAL MORALS V MODERN MORALS

Prohibition of Alcohol and Gambling were attempts to legislate morality.

Speakeasies and Underground Gambling Halls became the “norm”

Organized crime (Al Capone, Bugs Moran) supplied these bars with their booze and made millions.

TRADITIONAL VALUES V MODERN VALUES

Religious Education Tennessee State Law

prohibited the teaching evolution in science classrooms.

Evolution Education John Scopes decided

to teach it anyway. His case “The Scopes

Trial” went all the way to the Tennessee Supreme Court.

The original law banning evolution was upheld but this began the argument for teaching evolution in classrooms.

TRADITIONAL V MODERNEntertainment

Traditionally people went to the theatre or the symphony for entertainment.

People went to the movies to see talkies or to the dance halls and speakeasies to listen and Dance to Jazz.

TRADITIONAL V MODERN

The invention of the Radio allowed people to listen to music and news in their homes.

This new entertainment and form of communication contributed to the rise of “mass culture.”Everybody has

access to the same information/stuff.

HARLEM RENAISSANCE Rebirth of African

American Culture and Pride through music, literature and art.Langston HughesClaude McKayZora Neale Hurston

TO SUM IT ALL UP: The Roaring 20s was

a time of rapid change.

The transition from traditionalist to modernist views signaled a massive change in society.

African Americans in Harlem celebrated their culture through Art, Music, and Literature.