Popular Culture in the Roaring Twenties Chapter 28
Dec 23, 2015
Warm up
• Examine the picture on p.352
• What feelings does the picture invoke?
• What does this picture show about people during the 1920s?
Warm up
• This picture shows a woman flinging her arms and legs while doing a dance called the Charleston.
• This shows that the people of that era had more free time to enjoy dance. Her short dress suggests women were more free to dress provocatively.
Vocabulary
• Roaring Twenties
• Popular culture
• The Charleston
• League of Women Voters
• Equal rights amendment
• Harlem Renaissance
• Jazz Age
• Lost Generation
Roaring Twenties• A nickname given to the
1920s because of the decade’s prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom
Popular Culture
• Culture of ordinary people
• Includes music, art, literature and entertainment
• The Jazz Singer was the first feature length “talkie”
The Charleston• A dance that
originated as an African American folk dance in the South
• Popularized in the Roaring Twenties
League of Women Voters
• A grassroots organization created to educate women about public issues
• Women gained the right to vote in 1920
Equal rights amendment
• a bill proposed to guarantee equal rights for all Americans regardless of gender
• Not approved by Congress
Harlem Renaissance• An era of heightened
creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians who gathered in Harlem during the 1920s
• Langston Hughes published poems to call for greater racial equality
Jazz Age
• the era during the 1920s in which jazz became increasingly popular in the United States
• Louis Armstrong was famous for his trumpet solos
Lost Generation
• a group of young Americans writers who were disillusioned by WWI and the growing consumer culture
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.E. Cummings