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