Download 1920s: economy, culture and media

1920S:
ECONOMY, CULTURE
AND MEDIA
C.S.S 10.6
Lesson 1 Unit
7
VOCAB
Prohibition
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Flapper
modernism
Freud
 psychoanalysis
penicillin
Harlem Renaissance
 Langston Hughes
 Countee Cullen
Lost Generation
 F.Scott Fitzgereld
 Ernest Hemingway
 Gertrude Stein
 T. S. Eliot
AMERICA’S NEW ROLE AS A
WORLD LEADER
No one wanted another catastrophic war like
WWI
Naval arms race b/w Japan and West
Conference – did not solve world problems
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact
Outlaws war
SIGNING THE KELLOGG BRIAND
KELLOGG-BRIAND PACT
CRITICAL THINKING
What is the problem with
the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Who can enforce it?
GOD V. SCIENCE
 Teacher in Tenn. In 1925
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Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
Illegal to teach Darwinism in TN
Fired
ACLU convinced teacher John Scopes to violate the law
Result? God put on trial
PROHIBITION
The good girls
PROHIBITION
Root of all social ills
18 th amendment – forbade alcohol use,
sale and consumption
Volstead Act – enforced the law
RESULTS OF 18 TH AMENDMENT
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Americans drank anyway
Speakeasies
Bootleggers
Organized crime
 Al Capone
 Repealed by 21 st Amendment
RESULT OF PROHIBITION
 Speakeasies
 Organized Crime
 Al Capone
 girls gone wild
FLAPPERS (THE BAD GIRLS)
Women get more
freedom
Smoking
Dancing
Shorter skirts
Short hair
symbolized that
freedom
YAY!
THE FIRST IPOD
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Phonographs
Radio helped to standardized culture
1920 KDKA in Pittsburgh
Success
600 stations in three years
600,000 radios sold
MARIE CURIE
MODERNISM
 Charles Darwin and Origin of the Species
 Marie Curie – radiation
 Einstein - E=Mc 2
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Energy = Mass ( constant) 2
measurement is not absolute but relative to the observer.
two things can not occupy the same space at the same time
penicillin
E=MC 2
JEAN ARP - DADA
SALVADOR DALI –SURREALISM
KADINSKY - ABSTRACT
FLEMMING – PENICILLIN
SIGMUND FREUDSIGMUND FREUD
 contributed to modernism
and art
 science and the brain
 consciousness
 sub conscious
MODERNISM= UNCERTAINT Y
Edward hoppers
morning sun
LOST GENERATION
REACTION TO WWI
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
ERNST HEMMINGWAY
CHARACTERIZED:
MALAISE
LOSS OF INNOCENCE
LOSS OF PURPOSE
QUESTIONING WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT
GREAT GATSBY, F.SCOTT FITZGERALD
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
NEW BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS
Marcus Garvey
Back to Africa Movement
From Jamacia
Moved to Harlem
Unlike DuBois and Washington, did
not want blacks and whites to work,
live together
LANGSTON HUGHES
DREAM DEFERRED
What happens to a dream
deferred?
Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore -And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
In Harlem New York
Black writers
Black authenticity
Black Americans writing about their
experiences
Jean Toomer
Claude McKay
I DREAM A WORLD
I dream a world where
man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the
earth
And peace its paths
adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet
freedom's way,
Where greed no longer
saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our
day.
A world I dream where
black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties
of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will
hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all
mankindOf such I dream, my
world!
Langston Hughes
A BROWN GIRL DEAD
COUNTEE CULLEN
 With two white roses on her
breasts,
White candles at head and feet,
Dark Madonna of the grave she
rests;
Lord Death has found her sweet.
Her mother pawned her wedding
ring
To lay her out in white;
She'd be so proud she'd dance
and sing
to see herself tonight.
HARLEM WINE
T his is not water running here,
These thick rebellious streams
That hurtle flesh and bone past fear
Down alleyways of dreams
This is a wine that must flow on
Not caring how or where
So it has ways to flow upon
Where song is in the air.
So it can woo an artful flute
With loose elastic lips
Its measurements of joy compute
With blithe, ecstatic hips.
Countée Cullen
JAZZ
Duke Ellington
Count Bassie
Unique American music
World wide popularity