Popular Culture in the Roaring Twenties Chapter 28

Popular Culture in the Roaring Twenties Chapter 28

Essential Question • What social trends and innovations shaped popular culture during the 1920 s?

Roaring Twenties • A nickname given to the 1920 s because of the decade’s prosperity, technological advances, and cultural boom

Consumerism • New Products (kitchen & household appliances) • Advertising created demand for new products • Increase in use of credit to purchase goods.

Transportation • Affordable Cars (Model T) • Easier to travel and live to the city, suburbanization • More highways built • Travel industry (motels, diners

Mass Media • Radio (Sports, News, shows) • Silent Movies • Pop Culture, exposure to new fashion and ideas

(Women’s Rights)League of Women Voters • A grassroots organization created to educate women about public issues • Women gained the right to vote in 1920

Women’s Rights • Women demonstrated new freedom by wearing shorter dresses, shorter hair, make-up, going out and having fun.

The Jazz Age • Jazz: Music of African American Origin, involves improvisation, blues, and catchy rhythms • Charleston: Jazz inspired dance (fast, kicks, turns)

Harlem Renaissance • An era of heightened creativity among African American writers, artists, and musicians who gathered in Harlem during the 1920 s • Langston Hughes published poems to call for greater racial equality

Lost Generation • a group of young Americans writers who were disillusioned by WWI and the growing consumer culture • F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. E. Cummings