Culture In the 1920s
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Culture during the 1920sWhat social trends and innovations shaped
popular culture in the 1920s?
WARM-UP:
• In what ways do modernism and traditionalism conflict today? • What parts of our culture, from your experiences or observations, illustrate
this clash?
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=290
Post WWI Tensions• Labor unrest• Rising socialism = Red Scare
Sedition Act 1918Espionage Act• Xenophobia
Consumer Culture
• “Consumption is good for the economy”
• Buy on credit
Transportation• Charles Lindbergh, Amelia
Earhart
• Wingwalkers
• Barnstorming
• Automobiles = suburbs, motels, gas stations, etc.
Mass Media• Radio = today’s internet
• Movies
• Advertising
• National celebrities
Women’s Movement
• 19th Amendment• Sexual liberation and
Margaret Sanger• Flappers• League of Women
Voters• Equal Rights
Amendment
http://www.npr.org/templates/archives/archive.php?thingId=141952675
Art• Harlem Renaissance, Jazz
• “The Lost Generation” – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway..
• Georgia O’Keefe, Edward Hopper
• Norman Rockwell
Education and Medicine• Schools designed on factory model•
• No FDA to regulate and test drugs• Advances were made
• Germ theory• Anesthesia in surgery
Traditionalism vs. Modernism• Traditionalists = old values• Modernists = new values
Urban vs. Rural
Youth vs. Adult
Wet vs. Dry• Prohibition – 18th and 21st
Amendments
Religion vs. Science• The Scopes Trial
Traditionalism vs. Modernism
1920s in Oregon• Eugenics• Ku Klux Klan
KKK in Lane county
Eugenics in Oregon
Textbooks in Texas