Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
The 1920s
View through CrossRef
The American 1920s had many names: the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Dry Decade, and the Flapper generation. Whatever the moniker, these years saw the birth of modern America. This volume shows the many colorful ways the decade altered America, its people, and its future.American Popular Culture Through Historyvolumes include a timeline, cost comparisons, chapter bibliographies, and a subject index.
Writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Damon Runyon presented distinct literary visions of the world. Jazz, blues, and country music erupted onto the airwaves. The exploits of Babe Ruth and Murderers' Row helped save baseball from its scandals, while such players as Red Grange and Notre Dame's Four Horsemen brought football to national prominence. Yo-yos, crossword puzzles, and erector sets appeared, along with fads like dance marathons and flagpole sitting. Rudolph Valentino, talkies, and Clara Bow's It girl appeared on the silver screen. Prohibition indirectly led to bootlegging and speakeasies, while the growing rebelliousness of teenagers highlighted an increasing generation gap.
Title: The 1920s
Description:
The American 1920s had many names: the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Dry Decade, and the Flapper generation.
Whatever the moniker, these years saw the birth of modern America.
This volume shows the many colorful ways the decade altered America, its people, and its future.
American Popular Culture Through Historyvolumes include a timeline, cost comparisons, chapter bibliographies, and a subject index.
Writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Damon Runyon presented distinct literary visions of the world.
Jazz, blues, and country music erupted onto the airwaves.
The exploits of Babe Ruth and Murderers' Row helped save baseball from its scandals, while such players as Red Grange and Notre Dame's Four Horsemen brought football to national prominence.
Yo-yos, crossword puzzles, and erector sets appeared, along with fads like dance marathons and flagpole sitting.
Rudolph Valentino, talkies, and Clara Bow's It girl appeared on the silver screen.
Prohibition indirectly led to bootlegging and speakeasies, while the growing rebelliousness of teenagers highlighted an increasing generation gap.
Related Results
Understanding The Great Gatsby
Understanding The Great Gatsby
Today, more than 70 years after its publication,The Great Gatsbyseems as fresh and pertinent to American life as it did in the 1920s. The social, cultural, and historical milieu of...
Harvard-Yenching Institute and Cultural Engineering
Harvard-Yenching Institute and Cultural Engineering
Through an empirical, multi-archival study of a transnational foundation—the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) from the 1920s to the early 1950s—this book presents the story of tran...
“An Interesting Experiment in Eugenics”
“An Interesting Experiment in Eugenics”
The “ethnic dance” movement in the United States is closely associated with Ted Shawn, the “Father of American Dance” (1891–1972). Shawn and his wife and dancing partner, Ruth St. ...
New Alliances, New Media, New York
New Alliances, New Media, New York
This chapter talks about how Judson had transformed his professional life in less than five years. No longer a musical jack-of-all-trades, he was now a professional music manager, ...
Rethinking the Great Depression
Rethinking the Great Depression
The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was the most traumatic event of the twentieth century. It ushered in substantial expansions in the role of governments around the world,...
World War I and the 1920s
World War I and the 1920s
This chapter describes a decade of different types of fiscal squeeze under four different governments: massive tax hikes coupled with cuts in civilian services under the war coalit...
Beyond Gatsby
Beyond Gatsby
Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century—including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner—first made their mark in the 1920s, while es...