Telling A Whole New Story Coined by poet Gertrude Stein Writers, musicians, and painters Questioned accepted ideas about reason, progress, religion,

The Jazz AgeGlamour, culture, and excitement!

Post-War LiteratureTelling A Whole New Story

The Lost Generation

Coined by poet Gertrude Stein

Writers, musicians, and painters

Questioned accepted ideas about reason, progress, religion, and society

Mainly settled in Paris

ExistentialismThere is no universal

understanding or meaning to life. Each person creates his or her own meaning in life through

actions and choices taken.

Lost Generation WritersGertrude Stein - Tender Buttons: objects, food,

rooms

“A CARAFE, THAT IS A BLIND GLASS.

A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange a single hurt color and an arrangement in a system to pointing. All this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling. The difference is spreading.

GLAZED GLITTER.

Nickel, what is nickel, it is originally rid of a cover.”

Lost Generation Writers

Ernest Hemmingway – known for stoic male characters and disillusionment with youth and heroism; The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Coined the term – the “Jazz Age”

Glamorized the youth and excitement of the times in The Great Gatsby

TechnologyInventions and their effect on culture

A New Consumer Culture

Many new goods came on the market to take advantage of the new disposable income.

Most were advertised on the radio

People began buying high-priced items on credit – enjoy now, pay later!

Quickly, credit was applied to all purchases, big and small, inflating ideas of the public wealth and security of purchases

The Radio

More than any other invention of the age, the radio changed the very nature of how Americans communicated› National Broadcasting Company and the

Columbia Broadcasting System became the first national broadcasts

It created a homogeneous American culture:› Sports› Entertainment› News› Advertising› Standardized speech patterns

Putting America on the Move By 1920, the automobile was a way of

life for many Americans. Henry Ford produced the first

affordable automobile by using the assembly line.

– 1913: One car every 93 minutes. Sold for $490.

– 1925: One car every 10 seconds. Sold $295.

• Model T was nicknamed the “Tin Lizzie” or “Flivver”

“You can get the Model T in any color you wish, as long as

that color is black.”

Effects of the Automobile

Created a new industry that would drive America's economy for the next 50 years.

The automobile gave American youth the opportunity to pursue interests away from parents.

Allowed people to move farther away from the cities

1920 Ford Model T

In 1919, a New York City hotel owner offered $25,000 to the first aviator to fly nonstop from New York to Paris.

Several pilots were killed or injured while competing for the Orteig prize.

Orteig Prize

Charles Lindbergh An American aviator who made

the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1927. › Total flight time: 33 hours, 30

minutes, 29.8 seconds. Charles Lindbergh had not slept in 55 hours.  

Lindbergh's feat gained him immediate, international fame. The press named him "Lucky Lindy" and the "Lone Eagle."

Amelia Earhart

The Jazz Age Starts Swingin’

America’s Social Revolution

Art Deco Art Deco is one of the most

enduring physical legacies of the 1920s

Art Deco became the prevailing style for everything from buildings (the Chrysler Building) to jewelry

It emphasized geometric shapes, pattern of color, and symmetry

What do these have in common?

Pantages Theatre

The Movies

Hunks and Hams

RudolphValentino

DouglasFairbanks

“Fatty”Arbuckle

CharlieChaplin

Glittering Starlets

Mary PickfordMarion Davies

Clara Bow

The Jazz Singer – The first “Talkie”

Sports

The Great Experiment

In 1919, the 18th Amendment was passed, outlawing the manufacture, sale, distribution, and consumption of alcohol illegal in the United States

Congress passed the Volstead Act a year later, which gave the federal government the ability to enforce the amendment.

Moonshining and Bootlegging

With alcohol still being a desirable product, many turned to illegal methods of obtaining it› Moonshining› Bootlegging› Speakeasies

Gangsters Emergence of a

cutthroat black market

Bootleggers began using intimidation and violence to guard their “territory”

Organized crime families took over in major cities› Chicago, NYC

Many gangsters with colorful names began making headlines: “Baby Face” Nelson, Lucky Luciano, “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Jack “Legs” Diamond, “Bugs” Moran, and John Dillinger

The most influential and dangerous gangster› Leader of Chicago’s

Southside gang Suspected of

orchestrating numerous murders, but unable to be pinned for the crime. › St. Valentine’s Day

Massacre Eventually convicted of

tax evasion, sent to Alcatraz

Al Capone

St. Valentine’s

Day Massacre

The Harlem Renaissance

Bringing African American culture into the forefront

Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance:

A rebirth of African American culture during the 1920s

WWI left African Americans with a new sense of pride, having shown bravery and dedication during the war.

Marcus Garvey

A dynamic leader from Jamaica, he promoted “Negro Nationalism,” which glorified black culture and the traditions of the past

Back to Africa Movement

Literature

Literature of the Harlem Renaissance reflected the struggles and contributions of African Americans.

Zora Neale Hurston – Their Eyes Were Watching God

LiteratureA Dream DeferredBy Langston Hughes

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?

Jazz and Blues

Blues

Bessie Smith – Empty Bed Blues

I woke up this morning with a awful aching headI woke up this morning with a awful aching headMy new man had left me, just a room and a empty bed

Bought me a coffee grinder that's the best one I could findBought me a coffee grinder that's the best one I could findOh, he could grind my coffee, 'cause he had a brand new grind

Louis Armstrong – “Satchmo”

George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

Jazz jumpstarts Classical

The Charleston