Today we started the group presentations for the roaring twenties.
Music- Jazz was most popular as well as Broadway. Jazz was new and was started by African Americans by the Harlem Resonance. Marching Bands and Classical Music is what it was based off of. People did not like it at first because they weren't used to it but then they liked it. Blues was a sadder kind of music where Jazz was faster and up beat. Louie Armstrong and Duke Ellington are famous musicians and composers. It was usually not racially based.
Dances- The Charleston which was named after Charleston Carolina. Very boring song. The Black bottom was a funny dance originally danced to by African Americans. The Foxtrot made by African Americans it is upbeat and bouncy. The Tango from Latin America danced in the ghetto. The Waltz held each other. The Cake Walk that the slaves brought over.
Radio Shows-After dinner in the living room they would listen to the one radio they had to listen to music or the stories that explained what was going on in the outside world.
Prohibition 1920-1933-pushed people to do everything illegal. Started NASCAR. Drank alcohol illegally. Speak easy like quietly because you never know when it will get around to a cop or if you are talking to a cop because cops were under cover. Decor was like farm houses or very fancy. Gold and black.
Sports Pro football was called the APFA but is now called the NFL. Packers was one of the teams that won the championships and are still around. Golf, Walter Hagen, Bobby, Jones. Helen Willis won 8 Wimbledon's, 2 French championships and 7 US ones. She was the first women to play without her full body covered. Bill Tiden won 7 US championships. Baseball people from NY won a lot. Boxing was big and a lot more popular than football and stuff. Basketball 2nd tier sport.
FAD, Games, Slang, and Movies- Harry Houdini was a magician. YO-YO was a fad and a lot of kids were buying them. Sat on flagpoles. Pogo-sticks and stick ball. Got popular in the twenties. Card games like poker and crosswords. Beeswax, Big cheese, Heebie jeebies, Horse feathers, swanky. Sherlock Jr. was one of the top movies as well as Pandora's box, He who gets slapped, Greed, Sunrise and many more. Fare Banks was a famous actor.
Food-pasta, butterfinger and baby Ruth. Tea berry gum. A&W
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