How do your fashion choices, leisure activities and values differ from those of your parents?

1. How do your fashion choices, leisure activities and values differ from those of your parents?

2. The Roaring Twenties • New Fads & Fashion • Following the latest Fads • Fad – something that is taken up with passion for a short time. • Dances / dance marathons – Charleston, Lindy Hop, Shimmy, fox trot • Flagpole sitting • Crossword puzzles

3. Flappers set the style • Flapper – young women who rebelled against traditional ways of thinking and acting – INDEPENDENT! • Short bobbed hair • Short dresses • Bright red lipstick – dark eye make-up • Smocked cigarettes • Drank bootleg alcohol at speak-easies • Drove fast cars • Behavior shocked older Americans http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0&feature=player_detailpage

4. The Jazz Age • Jazz – music style that combined blues, ragtime, • Artists • Louis Armstrong , Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith • Spread from south to northern cities. • White musicians adopt style • Spread to Europe • Bad influence? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfeKUNDDYs

5. New Writers • experiences in WWI & Americans caring about money and fun. • Expatriates - people who leave their own country to live in a foreign land • Hemingway & Fitzgerald • Hemingway – “A Farwell to Arms” & “The Sun Also Rises” • Fitzgerald – “The Great Gatsby” • Other Writers • Sinclair Lewis – small town as narrow-minded and dull - babbitt • Edna St. Vincent Millay – fast pace of 20’s • Eugene O’Neill – playwright of realistic dramas

6. Harlem Renaissance – • rebirth of African American culture in Harlem • musicians, artists, and writers • celebrated heritage • Protested prejudice and racism • Langston Hughes • “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” • Protested racism and violence through writings • Other Writers • Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston • Experiences of African Americans

7. E. An Age of Heroes • Sports Figures • Radio, movies, and newspaper created celebrities • Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden & Helen Wills, Jack Dempsey, Gertrude Ederle, Red Grange, Babe Ruth • “Lucky Lindy” • Charles Lindbergh – fly solo nonstop across the atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis

8. For each picture below add 1-2 details on how it helped change American Culture Advertisements Cars Jazz Cultureof the 1920’s Buying on credit Fads Movies Radio Prohibition