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The Jazz Age

• Society in the 1920s
• Flappers in the Jazz Age

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The Jazz Age

• The 1920s were a time of rapid social change in
  which many people particularly women adopted
  new lifestyles and attitudes.

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Setting the Stage

• 1880s Industrialization and immigration.
• WWI accelerated urbanization and what happened to
  men in the war made the young question
  traditional values.

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The Flapper

• Confident, Breezy, slangy, and informal in
  manner slim and boyish in form wore expensive
  clothes (silk or fur) with vivid red cheeks and
  lips, plucked eyebrows and close-fitting helmet
  of hair

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The Flapper

• Wore shorter dresses than their mothers. (9-inch
  hemline for mom)
• Short hair and hats to show off short hair
• Bobbed hair
• Wore make up
• Drank and smoked in public

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The Flapper

• Not many women were full flappers.
• But changes were happening.
• Parents didnt like it!

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Women Working and Voting

• More women chose flapper hair and clothes because
  they were simpler for the working girl.
• Convenience

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Mens Fashion

• Mens fashion was influenced by popular athletes
  from the time
• Wide leg trousers
• Tight jackets
• Simple suits
• Ties and hats

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The Jazz Age

• Young people were NUTS about jazz.
• 1929 60 of radio air time was playing jazz.

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Facts

• Many jazz places (speakeasies) were not
  segregated
• Was popular in cities, not so much in rural areas
  who listened to more traditional music

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Instruments

• Trumpet
• Jazz Guitar
• Piano
• Saxophone
• Trombone

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Heroes of Jazz

• Louis Armstrong (1901 1974)
• Satchmo and The Gift
• Started in New Orleans and Chicago he later would
  travel the world playing jazz.
• Trumpet and singing scat

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Singing Scat

• In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal
  improvisation with nonsense syllables or without
  words at all.
• A difficult technique that requires singers with
  the ability to sing improvised melodies and
  rhythms using the voice as an instrument rather
  than a speaking medium.

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Jazz Heroes

• Duke Ellington
• 17 years old played jazz in clubs in Washington
  DC at night and painted signs in the day.
• Wrote thousands of songs and had his own band.

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Jazz Clubs and Dance Halls

• To hear jazz people went to NYC and the
  neighborhood of Harlem.
• 500 jazz clubs
• Cotton Club the most famous
• BUT
• Most white Americans did not want to hear jazz.

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• Using your notes, complete the Whats Jazz
  worksheet!

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• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vYXr4ZpkhTgE