The 1920’s was the era when entertainment really boomed and Hollywood came into the picture. Amazing books were written by Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jazz was made a popular form of music by Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman. But in the 30’s the entertainment industry took a dip because no one could afford food let alone a ticket to the movies or a concert. In the 1920’s the social norms were challenged by women called “flappers”.
Historians called the 1920s, roughly the period between the end of World War I and the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929, as the Roaring Twenties or a period of remarkable changes. Over half of all Americans resided in cities and the growing affordability of the automobile forced people to be a lot active. While the decade was known as the era of jazz and flapper fashions, a lot of domains still remained quite conservative. In the novels of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Stein, the 1920s were also the time of deep disillusionment, the era of the lost generation. Drawing upon my knowledge of the 1920s, I would evaluate the validity of this stereotype by historical
Though only a decade apart the 1920’s and the 1930’s were extremely different. The 1920’ was called the roaring twenties due to the exuberant lifestyles during the decade. The 1930’s was called the Great Depression because unemployment was high and there was a severe drought that damaged the agriculture industry. The 1920’s and the 1930’s were also similar in little ways such as entertainment.
When the 1920s are mentioned, many might conjure up images of young women in short dresses, dancing in jazz clubs. Others may think of the explosion of art and music that was the Harlem Renaissance, and still others will imagine a decade of celebration and growth after the end of the First World War. These images are iconic because they were what influenced the culture of the Twenties. The end of WWI, new cultural experimentation, and the jazz music of Louis Armstrong were major factors that influenced the culture of the 1920s.
People would come together to hear this music and dance their hearts away. Swing music was important in the aspect of bringing people together based on race and also for people to just “hang
These women drank, smoked, wore short dresses and had a bobbed hair style. Jazz was a big hit during the 1920s. With songs like “Nothing could be better”, ‘Love me”, and “Baby” and with dances like the Charleston, the flea hop, and the black bottom everyone was enjoying themselves. The first radio station hit the air in 1920 in Pittsburgh.
The 1920s was the best time for music. In the 1920s, music was effected by mainly The Great Depresion. A main event that started durring the 1920s that effected music alot would be The Great Depresion. How it effected music is The Great Depresion caused a lot of sadness and depresion (as it did), and saddness was the fuel for the Blues, and the Blues were one of the best genres of music in that time.
In the mid-1930s, as the Great Depression willfully declined to lift, Jazz turned into America 's famous music, its effect was so solid, and it would be called progressive. Jazz is the most huge type of melodic expression in the African American culture. It 's achievement in the 20 's and 30 's are intelligent of the time. At to start with, everybody did not
From receiving heavy criticism due to a variety of factors to being the most popular musical genre for Canadians during the Great Depression, jazz music has been responsible for uplifting people’s spirits, shaping cities and changing the face of music. Prohibition and racial tensions in the United States attracted talent, whether immigrants were seeking employment in film or pursuing a career in jazz. The Golden Age of Radio also contributed to jazz’s success, leading jazz to be the most popular genre of the 1930s. It is often forgotten that Canada is home to some of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, like Oscar Peterson. Jazz is not only an American concept, contrary to popular
By 1920, the Jazz age was well underway as a direct challenge to the prohibition of alcohol. Famous Jazz players of the 1920s where: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Ella Fitzgerald, and Joe Venuti. This was one of the first times in American history that the majority of non-African Americans accepted parts of African American culture. It was the moment that many African Americans were able to enter into the mainstream. Though African Americans lived under constant fear of death and pain in the Gilded Age, all was not pain and sorrow.
In a time of economic prosperity, a rise in the standard of living and rock and roll, also known as the “happy days”, the 1950s were a time looked back on with nostalgia. On the other hand, the 1950s were also met with many problems involving civil rights, the Cold War and McCarthyism. After the end of World War II, Americans came home to jobs available and a period of consensus. Consensus meaning there wasn’t much debate in politics. However tensions quickly rose throughout the nation when Joseph McCarthy made serious accusations about the State Department.
In the time WW1, a wild new popular culture emerged in the United States. In part, it was a hedonistic and extravagant reaction to the hardship and austerity experienced during the war. Some have referred to it as the Roaring Twenties, while others have called it the Jazz Age. When one speaks of the Jazz Age, what comes to mind is a decade of partying, of the Charleston and jazz bands, of female flappers and loose morals, of bathtub gin and speakeasies, all combined and intertwined into a celebration of American technology and ingenuity that, over the course of a decade, provided average U.S. families the materialistic conveniences of automobiles and modern appliances. A truly remarkable chapter of American history, Jazz was the soundtrack to it and came to embody the attitude of the burgeoning counterculture.
During the 1910s, there were many exciting and terrifying events. In 1910, a horrible inferno called the Great Fire of 1910 broke out and destroyed a couple million acres of forest. With the Great Fire, one of the heroic firefighters, Edward Pulaski, saved almost all of his crew except The 1910s also had music. Bluegrass, jazz, and scat with many other genres.
Modern Era The Modern Era is the time period in musical development that began around the turn of the 20th century in which great changes in compositional techniques and styles took place. This era challenged and reinterpreted old styles of music, making it a time of great innovation. Although homophonic textures were used, they were used with less importance and the most dominant texture of the Modern era was contrapuntal texture.
The Renaissance and Baroque periods of music are two very similar and different eras. The Renaissance which began after the end of the Middle Ages in 1450 and ended the beginning of the 1600s, this is where the Baroque period starts. The beginning of the Renaissance period was compromised of sacred and religious music cultivating from the middle ages. Before the Renaissance period music had to be copied and re-written by hand, which was a very difficult task to do continuously. During the Renaissance period however, printing was invented, which made producing music easier and also changed a lot of other things in other areas.
