1. 1920’s THE ARTS

2. Writers…  The Lost Generation  Group of writers that rejected material wealth  After suffering the horrors of WWI they didn’t fit in everyday life  F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote ‘The Great Gatsby”  It’s about a rich, but unhappy man  Ernest Hemingway wrote “The Sun Also Rises”

3. Music…  So where was the first music publishing capital?

4. Tin Pan Alley  Part of New York City  Music publishing capital of the world until 1950’s Videos\The Jazz Age.asf

5. Jazz…  Can’t do this without a little Louis Armstrong…  He’s from New Orleans, Louisiana, not New York…  Videos\Louis Armstrong - When The Saints Go Marching In.mp4 Videos\Louis Armstrong - When The Saints Go Marching In.mp4

6. Harlem Renaissance  Poets and Writers  Langston Hughes  One of America’s best poets  Let me read you a couple  Zora Neale Hurston  One of first successful African-American women authors  Not “arts”, but ….  Marcus Garvey  Lead “Back-To-Africa Movement”  Wanted African Americans to return to Africa (Liberia) Videos\The Harlem Renaissance.asf