Chapter 20 The Jazz Age

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Chapter 20The Jazz Age

• Section 2
• Cultural Innovations

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Art Literature

• During the 1920s, American artists, writers, and
  intellectuals began challenging traditional ideas
  as they searched for meaning in the modern world.

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Greenwich Village and the South Side

• The artistic and unconventional, or Bohemian,
  lifestyle of Manhattans Greenwich Village and
  Chicagos South Side attracted artists and
  writers.
• These areas were considered centers of
  creativity, enlightenment, and freedom from
  conformity to old ideas.

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Modern American Art

• The European Art movement influenced American
  modernist artists.
• Edward Hopper revived the visual accuracy of
  Realism.

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Poets and Writers

• Carl Sandburg used common speech to glorify the
  Midwest and the expansive nature of American life.

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Poets Writers

• Edna St. Vincent Millay expressed womens
  freedom and equality and praised a life intensely
  lived.

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Poets Writers

• T.S. Eliot described a world filled with empty
  dreams and foresaw a world that would end not
  with a bang but a whimper.

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Poets Writers

• Eugene ONeil focused on the search for meaning
  in modern society.

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Poets Writers

• Ernest Hemingway Often created characters who
  were heroic antiheroes flawed individuals who
  still had heroic qualities of mind and spirit.

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Popular Culture

• The economic prosperity of the 1920s afforded
  many Americans leisure time for enjoying sports,
  music, theater, and entertainment.
• Radio, motion pictures, and newspapers gave rise
  to a new interest in sports.

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Baseball

• Babe Ruth became a national hero, famous for
  hitting hundreds of homeruns (714).

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Babe Ruth
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Boxing

• Jack Dempsey World Heavyweight Champion from
  1919 to 1927.

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Football

• Red Grange aka the Galloping Ghost was one of
  the most famous football players of the 1920s

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Golf

• Bobby Jones best golfer of the decade.
• First golfer to win the U.S. Open and British
  Open in the same year.

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Tennis

• Bill Tilden dominated the tennis world.

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Swimming

• Gertrude Ederle shattered records by swimming
  the English Channel in a little over 14 hours.

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Gertrude Ederle
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The Rise of Hollywood

• Motion pictures became increasingly popular.
• The first talking picture, The Jazz Singer, was
  made in 1927.
• The golden age of Hollywood began.

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Popular Radio Shows Music

• The mass media radio, movies, newspapers, and
  magazines helped break down the focus on local
  interests.
• Mass media helped unify the nation and spread new
  ideas and attitudes.

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