THE ROARING TWENTIES

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THE ROARING TWENTIES

• How did the people of USA have a good time in
  the1920s?
• Growing Cities
• Radio
• Jazz
• Sports
• Cinema
• Morals
• Car

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GROWING CITIES

• In 1920 more Americans lived in towns and cities
  than in the country. Throughout 1920 the cities
  were growing fast. The skyscrapers were the
  symbol of the cities. But problems between rural
  areas and urban areas began. Many people of the
  country thought that their traditional values
  were under threat from the growing cities. So
  they started to pay a rearguard against the
  evil effects of the city.

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• Skyscrapers

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RADIO

• Almost everyone in the USA listened to the radio.
  The choice of programmes grew quickly. At the
  beginning there was only one licensed radio
  station in America. One year later there were 508
  of them. The most popular at that time was the
  network NBC

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JAZZ

• Jazz music became an obsession among young
  people. Black people, who moved from the country
  to the cities, had brought jazz and captured the
  imagination of white Americans. The 1920s became
  known as the Jazz Age. The older generation saw
  jazz as a corrupting influence towards young
  people of USA. Some pioneers of the jazz were
  Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Freddie Keppard,
  etc.

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King O

• Louis Armstrong King
  Oliver
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  The beginning of
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  Jazz

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SPORTS

• Sports was another boom area. Baseball became a
  big money sport with legendary teams like the New
  York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. Boxing was also
  a very popular sport, with heroes like Jack
  Dempsey.

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CINEMA

• In Hollywood a major film industry was
  developing. The studios could produce large
  numbers of films or movies. New stars like
  Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton were comedians.
  The firsts movies were comedy and thriller. Since
  1927 the movies started to be spoken. Movies
  became a multi-billion dollar business as it is
  today.

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• 
  Buster Keaton
• Charles Chaplin
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  An old cinema

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MORALS

• After the WWI young women began to have new
  attitudes. The change was most obvious in sexual
  morals. Before the war sex was a strange subject.
  After the war it became a concern for many people
  of USA as Hollywood started to make films. The
  cinema quickly discovered the selling power of
  sex. Today these films would be considered very
  dull indeed, but at that time they were
  considered very daring. The rural states were
  very worried and 36 states threatened to
  introduce censorship legislation. But Hollywood
  responded with its own censorship code. Meanwhile
  contraceptive advice was openly available for the
  first time.

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• Some movies of
  Hollywood in 1920

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THE CAR

• The motor car was one factor that tended to make
  all the other features of the 1920s mentioned
  above more possible. Cars helped the cities to
  grow by opening up the suburbs. They carried
  their owners to and from their entertainments.
  They took Americans to an increasing range of
  sporting events, beach holidays and shopping
  trips. Also the races began.

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  A race car

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Some funny videos of chaplin

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vDlkdtS8OFlA
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vmtZTIwSIuGwfeature
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