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1 Chapter 22, Section 3 The Jazz Age

2 Popular Dances of the 1920’s
1920's Fox Trot The Charleston Lindy Hop Dance

3 1920’s Fads Flagpole sitting Dance Contests – It’s A Wonderful Life
Kelly Records Flagpole sitting Dance Contests – It’s A Wonderful Life Mah-jongg Shipwreck Kelly

4 Heroes Babe Ruth &Ty Cobb Jack Dempsey Charles Lindbergh
Red Grange Video will not hyperlink! Jack Dempsey Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis

5 African-American Performers
Duke Ellington! Duke Ellington Jazz pianist and composer; one of America’s greatest composers Bessie Smith Blue’s singer; perhaps the outstanding female vocalist of her time; in 1927 became the highest paid black artist in the world Louis Armstrong (Satchmo) Jazz trumpet player; known for his astounding sense of rhythm and ability to improvise; went on to become the single most important and influential musician in the history of Jazz Sachmo!

6 Literature of the 1920’s Sinclair Lewis F. Scott Fitzgerald

7 African-American Writers
Langston Hughes Poet, known for poems that described the difficult everyday lives of working-class AA Zora Neale Hurston Writer of novels, books of folklore, poems, and short stories; known for works that portrayed the lived of poor, unschooled Southern AA

8 The End, Almost! Questions? The Birth of Jazz


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