POP CULTURE OF THE ROARING TWENTIES

By: Ashanti Brown

1920s

Better known as “The Roaring Twenties” because it was a time of economic prosperity where culture, music, motion pictures, trendy fashions and arts started to become about.

AKA the “Jazz Age” Jazz music was the most popular form of

music in this period.

Dance clubs held the most activity in the 1920s. Majority of the population enjoyed

expressing through dancing.

POPULAR DANCES

Most popular dances were performed with partners.

• The Charleston• The Quickstep• The Shimmy

The Famous Charleston Dance

FASHION

• Fashion for women changed in the 1920s due to the broadcasting of fashion in movies and magazines. They were called flappers.

• Flappers listened to jazz, wore their hair in short bobs and skimpy corset dresses.

POPULAR MUSIC

• Known as the “Jazz Age”

• Blues

• Country

SOME FAMOUS MUSIC ARTISTS

Louis Armstrong Duke EllingtonSidney BechetPaul WhitemanBing Crosby

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

After the war, African- Americans started looking for more employment in other areas…

This brought them to bring their music and culture w/ them. This became known as The

Harlem Renaissance

ART DECO

This era encouraged people to become more expressive.

Outstanding architectures and designs were constructed.

CINEMA

Films were soon upgraded with color and sound effects.

Cartoons became popular in movie theatres.

LITERARY

Creativity lead to the makings of great literary

books and poems.

Radios & TV programming became popular towards everyone especially middle class

people.

QUOTES• “The business of America is business.”- President Calvin Coolidge• “Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the

1920s.”- David Rockefeller• “For some reason, I just loved it. There was a sense of optimism and joy in the

1920s.”- Sandy Wilson• “You are all a lost generation.”- Gertrude Stein (Hemigway’s quote in The Sun

Also Rises.)• “Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The

sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.”- F Scott Fitzgerald• “It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life

painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.”- Georgia O’ Keefe

• “None of your beeswax”- slang of the 1920s.• “ It’s in the berries.”- slang of the 1920s.

CREDITS

• Google Images• Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myq6hg2gcWwhttp://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/artliter/artslit.htmhttp://www.shmoop.com/1920s/summary.htmlhttp://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twentieshttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/g/georgiaok162627.html