Jazz Age
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By Jessica Gardner and Mishia Spring
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Jazz Age. By Jessica Gardner and Mishia Spring. Thesis. In the 1920’s, a new musical style and literature swept the nation. Those new styles changed our culture as we know it. Harlem Renaissance. African Americans moved north in hope for better employment. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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By Jessica Gardner and Mishia Spring
ThesisIn the 1920’s, a new musical style and
literature swept the nation. Those new styles changed our culture as we know it.
Harlem RenaissanceAfrican Americans moved north in hope for
better employment.They brought their culture with them.They started new forms of music and writing.After World War 1 to the middle of the 1930’s
depression.
MusicThe new music form known as jazz.Jazz music spread through America via radio.Jazz was influenced from African and
Southern US music.Also influenced other parts of the world.Spread in New York, Chicago, and Kansas
City.
MusicLouis Daniel Armstrong, most famous Jazz
musician of the timeDuke Ellington, one of the most influential
African Americans of the 20th century
LiteratureReflected on their life-changing experiences
and recklessness of peoples lives in the 1920’s.
Showed the dangers of the 1920’sShowed the excess (money) of the 1920’sShowed the corruption of post-WWI and the
growth of individualism
LiteratureThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1925), the American dream.Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne (1926), still
known today.The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway,
lost generation of expatriates.
Works CitedThe Jazz Age and Louis Armstrong (The 1920's).
The Roaring Twenties. 25 Jan 10. http://library.thinkquest.org/C005846/categories/artliter/artslit.htm
Harlem Renaissance. Explore. 25 Jan 10.http://www.42explore2.com/harlem.htm
A Jazz Culture. 25 Jan 10. www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/studproj/is3099/jazzcult/20sjazz/jazzculture.html
Jazz Age. Answers. 28 Jan 10. http://www.answers.com/topic/jazz-1
