A New Tune: The Jazz Era

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A New Tune The Jazz Era

• By Corey Gibeault and Tara Fothergill

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Table Of Contents

• Flappers.3-4
• Sigmund Freud5-6
• The Jazz Singer7-8
• Scopes Monkey Trial9-10
• Gangsterism11-12
• End of the Immigration13
• Bibliographies14

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Flappers

• 1920s- WWI ended, women given right to vote
• By gaining more rights, motivated them to gain
  more power
• Seen as rebels
• Defied familiar feminine behavior
• Symbol of revolution in fashion
• Seen as fast and bold
• Loved to dance (Charleston)

flappers
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Style
-short hair/ bob cuts -skirts/dresses became
shorter -turned down pantyhose -Baggy dresses
exposing arms and legs ?baggy style made the
flappers look like boys, acquired the name
garconne look Heavy makeup -used egg white to
slick down hair -hats were called cloche hats
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Sigmund Freud

• Viennese physician
• Justified flappers through sexual repression
  responsible for variety of nervous and emotional
  illnesses
• Studied hysteria effects it had on the human
  being
• Hysteria begins due to traumatic experience in
  ones life
• Shut down emotionally causes physical illnesses

Sigmund Freud
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Anna O.
-patient of Dr. Joseph Breuer, who Freud was an
assistant to -Freud wrote a book with Breuer on
the study of Anna -hysteria patient, underwent
emotional trama from the death of her
father -stopped eating, numbness in hands and
feet, paralysis, hallucinations -cannot
comprehend such a traumatic sitatuation -must
express emotions to overcome experience -used
hypnosis to help her express her
emotions -symptom after symptom disappeared
Anna O.
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The Jazz Singer

• Warner Bros. Produce The Jazz Singer in 1927
• First Hollywood talkie movie containing
  dialogue
• photo-dramatic production
• Ended silent films
• Included dialogue, musical sound effects, action
  title/subtitle cards

Poster Promoting The Jazz Singer
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Contributions
About the Movie
-made 3.5 million dollars at the box office -made
Warner Bros. into most popular film production
factory in Hollywood -ended silent films, paved
the way for further advancements ?color
films, etc. -transformed film industry
The character Rabinowitz, a Jewish cantor, wants
his son to continue in the five-generation family
tradition and become a cantor at the Orchard
Steet synagogue. His son, Young Jakie Rabinowitz,
disobeys his fathers wishes and wants to go into
show business.
Billboard advertising The Jazz Singer
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Scopes Monkey Trial

• John Scopes
• ?high school biology teacher in Dayton,
  Tennessee
• -on trial and was indicted for teaching evolution
  1925

John T. Scopes
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The Trial
Results

• Defended by Clarence Darrow and prosecuted by
  William Jennings Bryan
• Bryan fought using fundamentalist information
• Scopes found guilty and fined 100

• Tensions between fundamentalists and
  evolutionists
• The trial changed peoples perspectives and more
  people started believing in evolution
• Fundamentalism stayed popular in Christian
  religion and especially Baptists

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Gangsterism

• Largely because of prohibition
• Easy to make money selling illegal alcohol
• Most violent in Chicago
• Gangers bribed police in illegal profits of
  alcohol
• Spread into prostitution, gambling, and narcotics

Al Capone Mug Shot
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Al Capone

• Nickname Scarface
• Largest gangster of 1920s- most powerful in 1925
• Booze distributor
• Began six years of gang warfare
• Made millions of dollars through illegal alcohol
  profit and murders
• St. Valentines Day Massacre 1929
• ? thought to be responsible
• Served most of an eleven year sentence in federal
  penitentiary for income tax invasion

Al Capone
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End of Immigration Era

• Influenced by pro-Americanism
• Emergency Quota Act of 1921- European newcomers
  restricted in any given year to definite quota
  (3)
• Immigrant Act of 1924-quotas for foreigners were
  cut from 3 percent to 2 percent
• Restriction on quotas created a No-Vacancy
  policy in U.S.
• Immigration began to halt
• By 1931 more immigrants had left the country than
  had entered it
• Immigration tide cut off by Immigration Act of
  1924
• Displayed intolerance for foreigners and
  non-native Americans
• The few arriving immigrants left lived in
  isolated areas with other immigrants

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Bibliographies
http//www.geocities.com/flapper_culture/
Fashions of a Decade The 1920s, by Jacqueline
Herald, pgs. 28-29
http//www.filmsite.org/jazz.html
http//www.ship.edu/cgboeree/freud.html
http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAgangster.h
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The American Pageant- Thomas A. Bailey, David M.
Kennedy, and Lizabeth Cohen