Upload
damon-morris
View
216
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Define materialistic.• Placing high value
on the purchasing of material things
• Characteristics of 1920s
What was the Lost Generation?• Expatriate writers and artists
who left America and criticized its materialism
• Said America was “enemy of the artist, of the man who cannot produce something tangible…”
• Hemmingway– The Sun Also Rises– Novels portray lost innocence
of post war generation
• F. Scot Fitzgerald– The Great Gatsby– Discusses the empty lives of
wealthy Americans
How did Americans entertain themselves during the 1920s? 1of 2 slides
• Era of the silent movies• Theaters
– opened 1-11 PM everyday– $.10 per seat– Glamorous to lower
classes– Criticized for corrupting
youth
• Cult of Stardom– Read gossip columns
written about stars lives
– Tried to imitated hairstyles, fashion
Clara Bow
• Spectator Sports– Baseball
• Babe Ruth– Bambino, Sultan of Swat
– Boxing• Jack Dempsey
– “Manassas Mauler”– World Heavyweight
Champion (1919 and 1926)
• Fight with Gene Tunney viewed as battle between Modernists and Traditionalists
How did Americans entertain themselves during the 1920s?
How did music change during the 1920s?• Blues and jazz • Blues
– Derived from work songs of slaves
• Jazz– Born in New Orleans– No written notes– Louis Armstrong
• The Charleston– Dance with crossing
hands, knocking knees• Radios
– began to become popular
What did people read during the 20s?• High literacy rate• Reader’s Digest, Time
Magazine created• Tabloids
– Published scandals, fads, dance marathons
• Advertisements– Spawned from the
Committee of Public Safety
– Told Americans what they needed, wanted
Who was Langston Hughes?• Novelist & Poet during of
the Harlem Renaissance– flowering of African
American art, literature, music and culture in Harlem
• Part of the “New Negro” movement– Proud to be black– “black is beautiful”– Urged African Americans
to reach their American Dream
The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?