The Jazz Age

Chapter 20 Section 2-3

Literature

• Ernest Hemingway – wrote about his experiences in WWI• For Whom the Bell Tolls• A Farewell to Arms

• F. Scott Fitzgerald – glamorous characters who chased futile dreams• The Great Gatsby

Baseball Icons

• Babe Ruth b/c a national hero for his homeruns

Baseball Icons

• Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig • Ty Cobb & Ted Williams

Boxing Icon

• Jack Dempsey world heavyweight champion from 1919-1926

Football Icon

• Red Grange known as the “Galloping Ghost” b/c of his speed

Popular Culture

• Motion Pictures b/c popular• 1927 – first “talking” picture – The Jazz Singer

• Mass media – radio, movies, newspapers, and magazines• Unified the nation through shared

experiences

The Golden Age of Radio

The Silver Screen

Alabama Theatre The Showplace of the South

The Fox Theatre Atlanta, Georgia

Hollywood Icons

• Charlie Chaplin was a huge star of silent films

Hollywood Icons

• Mary Pickford was America’s sweetheart

Hollywood Icons

• Rudolph Valentino was described as “catnip to women”

• He was known as “The Great Lover”

Harlem Renaissance• Harlem Renaissance

• An African-American mvmt in the arts• Great Migration

• African Americans journeyed from the rural South to industrial cities in the North

• Harlem in New York City was full of night clubs and music• Growing A.A. art, racial pride, and a sense

of community and political organization

Harlem RenaissanceThe “New Negro”

Writers

• Claude McKay• Expressed a proud defiance and bitter

contempt of racism

• Langston Hughes• Very original and versatile• Wrote about A.A. experiences in the

US

• Claude McKay • Langston Hughes

Music

• Louis Armstrong• Introduced an early form of jazz• Jazz – a style of music influenced by

Dixieland music and ragtime

• Blues – soulful style of music that evolved from A.A. spirituals• Focused on unfulfilled love, poverty, and

oppression

• Ella Fitzgerald • Louis Armstrong

Politics

• B/c of the Great Migration A.A. b/c a powerful voting block in the North• Most voted Republican

• 1928 – Oscar DePriest b/c the first A.A. representative in Congress• From a Northern state

• A call for “Negro Nationalism”• Negro Nationalism – glorified the black culture and

traditions of the past