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A REVOLUTION IN STYLES AND MANNERS The Roaring Twenties.

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1 A REVOLUTION IN STYLES AND MANNERS The Roaring Twenties

2 Popular Entertainment Radio, movies, and sports became the focus of American popular culture.  Radio  KDKA- 1 st radio station in Pittsburgh went on air in November 1920  Movies  Before WWI, silent movies were shown in small cinemas where admission was only 5¢  The Jazz Singer was the first talking picture released in 1927  Sports  To arouse interest in upcoming sports events, promoters billed every big event as the most thrilling in history  In 1920 Babe Ruth of the NY Yankees set a new record for home runs. People began pouring into the new Yankee Stadium to watch him break his own record

3 Culture and Style The most important musical development of the 1920s was jazz.  1920s became known as the “Jazz Age”  Rooted in black spirituals and African folk rhythms Popular dances  Fox-trot, the camel-walk, the tango, and the Charleston Flappers  A new woman was born A new woman was born  “modern” and “rebellious”  She cut her hair, wore make-up, went to petty parties, smoked, drank, danced, and voted

4 Fads and Fancies Americans in the 1920s amused themselves with an assortment of games and fads.  Mah Jong  Chinese game played with colored tiles  Crossword puzzles  The idea started in Sunday newspapers  Magazines  The magazines founded in the 1920s had a more lasting effect on American popular culture Life Time Reader’s Digest

5 The Literary Life American writers were discontent with society.  The Lost Generation  Group of American writers who rebelled against the post-war America which had become materialistic Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein

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