The Jazz Age

1. The Jazz Age By: Jakki and Alyssa

2. Fads • Some of the dances that were popular in the time were; • The Charleston • Lindy Hop • Black bottom • Breakaway • In the 1920’s flagpole sitting and dance marathons were all the rage. In a dance marathon couples would dance for hundreds of hours until there was only one couple standing. www.theintellectualdevotional.com

3. Mah-jongg • The most popular in China and soon to be in America. • Mah-jongg out sold radios in the 1920s. -domino shaped tiles with bamboo, circles, characters, dragons, wind, jokers, and flower designs on the tiles. -a four player game -find and pick tiles that match each other until all the tiles are gone.

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5. Sport heroes • Babe Ruth had 60 runs in one season and the record lasted more than thirty years. -wore camel hair coats at his games which soon became popular. • Johnny Weissmuller: swimmer • Red Grange: football player • Bobby Jones: golf • Bill Tilden and Helen Wills: tennis • Jack Dempsey: boxer • background-pictures.feedio.net

6. Sport heroes • Charles Lindbergh (Lucky Lindy) • Beloved hero • Was a handsome young airplane pilot • 1st to fly across Atlantic ocean in 1927 without stopping. • NYC gave him the biggest ticker tape parade www.toqonline.com

7. The American blues • Jazz music was made by black musicians in nightclubs or dance halls of New Orleans. • Jazz is combined rhythms from West Africa and the Caribbean, work chants and spirituals from the rural south, and harmonies from Europe into an original new style of music. • Jazz artists • Trumpet and singer – Louis Armstrong (Satchmo) he grew up in a New Orleans orphanage.

8. continued • Singer- Bessie Smith • Band leader- Duke Ellington They all had roots in the south.

9. Social critics • F. Scott Fitzgerald was a 1925 novelist who wrote the book “ The Great Gatsby” which told about life from the wealthy • Ernest Hemingway was noted for short direct sentences using everyday language. • In 1926 he wrote a book called “The Sun Also Rises”. It was about a group of young Americans who went around Spain after the war. • He wrote another book in 1929 called “A Farewell to Arms”. It captured the growing antiwar sentiments of his generation.

10. Continued • Sinclair Lewis reacted against what he saw as hypocrises in the middle class culture. • In the book Babbitt, made a fictional real estate agent character named George F. Babbitt to criticize American society.

11. The Harlem renaissance • In the 1920s African American culture grew in Harlem, NYC, which brought thousands of migrants from the South. • Langston Hughes was a poet and wanted his poems to sound like jazz music. • James Weldon Johnson combined poetry and politics. He wrote editorials for the New York Age which was one of the most important black owned newspapers in the country. He also worked as an organizer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

12. continued • Zora Neale Hurston moved to New York to study anthropology at Barnard College. She also recorded folksongs and tales to preserve and examine them. She also wrote the novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God” www.artlex.com