BELL WORK Come in and pick up “Jazz age slang!” Look over it and see if you are able to figure out what the slang words mean!

BELL WORK

•Come in and pick up “Jazz age slang!” Look over it and see if you are able to figure out what the slang words mean!

T H E R OA R I N G 2 0 ’ S

THE POSTWAR WORLD

CHANGING PATTERNS

•Warren Harding – elected Pres. 1920•“Return to Normalcy”•But there was no going back•People in N. Amer. And Europe experimented w/ new customs and ways of life.

WHAT’S TRENDING?

• Women gained a new level of independence• 19th Amendment

• Women known as “flappers” created a revolution in manners and morals.• People in general wanted larger than life

heroes.• Babe Ruth – baseball • Big Bill Tilden – Tennis • Gertrude Ederle – Swimming • Charles Lindbergh – Pilot

WHAT’S TRENDING?

• WW1 opened a lot of doors for economic development.• Pres. Calvin Coolidge summed up the U.S. in the

20’s.• “The business of America is business”

TECHNOLOGY

• Decade following WW1 witnessed a revo. In transportation and communication.• Automobiles had the biggest impact in the world.• U.S. became very mobile

• Radios produced a homogenous culture.• Phonograph-• Record player

TECHNOLOGY

• The demand for consumer goods increased.• Vacuum cleaners, packaged foods, electric irons

• Leisure time• Movies-First talking movie “The Jazz Singer”

PHYSICS

• 1905 – German physicist Albert Einstein introduced his Theory of Relativity.• No absolutes in time and space

• Time and space depend on the relative motion of bodies and space.• Speed of light is constant and all matter has

energy.

PHYSICS

• 1945 - Einstein’s E=MC^2 was supported w/ the first atomic bomb.• “There are no absolutes in any field of knowledge

or moral values.”

PSYCHOLOGY

• Austrian physician, Sigmund Freud, revolutionized ideas about how the mind works.• Unconscious mind plays a major role in

shaping behavior.• Led to new approaches w/ mental illnesses

and education.

THE ARTS

• Biggest gap between old and new after WW1 was in art.• Painting, literature, music, dance, etc.• New styles introduced• Pablo Picasso’s Guernica-Spanish Civil War-1930s• Cubism

LITERATURE

• Poets like T. S. Eliot used a complex style to present a sense of despair about life.• No hope

• Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald developed different styles.• 1922 – Irish Novelist James Joyce

published Ulysses• Style known as “stream of

consciousness”

LITERATURE

• Harlem Renaissance – African American Literary movement.• Focused on African American experience

in U.S.• John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath

described the Oklahoma farmers who abandoned their fields.• Moved to Cali.

PAINTING

• Radical new styles in painting.• 1907 – Pablo Picasso introduced cubism w/ Les

Demoiselles d’Avignon. • Dada stressed absurdity and the unpredictability

of life.• Dada’s reliance on imagination led to surrealism • Dream-like images

PAINTING

• Salvador Dali – known for his impossible images. (Spanish painter)• Social realist painters showed the human

suffering caused by the Depression (1930’s).• Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, etc.

MUSIC / DANCE

• Several composers and musicians changed their styles after WW1.• Arnold Schoenberg-Composer• Europeans conducted music w/o traditional

harmonies.• U.S. – 1920’s were known as the “jazz age.”• Combination of American, West African, and European

classical music.

MUSIC / DANCE

• Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham – changed dance into an art form in U.S.• Russian sponsor, Sergey Diaghilev, developed

modern ballet.• George Balanchine expanded Sergey’s work –

brought it to the U.S.

ARCHITECTURE

• 20’s and 30’s saw new designs in buildings and furnishings.• Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus school of

design• Frank Lloyd Wright blended architecture w/

surrounding nature.

POP. CULTURE

• Hollywood productions dominated movie theaters around the world.• The creative use of cameras elevated silent films

into an art form.• 1927 – The Jazz Singer was the first non-silent

film. • October 1929 – Tragedy struck w/ deadly

consequences