Video: MC Hammer – “Can’t Touch This” (1990)

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1 Video: MC Hammer – “Can’t Touch This” (1990)
Objective: To examine the cultural changes brought about by the Jazz Age. Do Now: Define the term fad, then make a list of fads that you know of. Fad – activity or fashion that is very popular for a short time Video: MC Hammer – “Can’t Touch This” (1990)

2 1920’s: Fads and Fashions Fads caught on quickly during the 1920’s. Ex.) dance marathons, flagpole sitting

3 Flapper – young woman in the 1920’s who declared her independence from traditional rules.

4 How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
1) short, bobbed hair 2) bright-red lipstick

5 How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
3) short skirts

6 How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
4) smoked cigarettes in public

7 How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
5) drank alcohol in speakeasies (left) Latest thing in flasks. A dancer shows off the garter flask fad in Washington, D.C.(Jan.26, 1926) (right) Woman putting flask in her Russian boot, Washington, D.C. (Jan. 21, 1922)

8 How did flappers rebel against traditional ways of thinking?
6) danced at jazz clubs

9 Louise Brooks, 1920’s

10 Video: Flappers – 1920’s (6:24)

11 Jazz Age · Jazz music was created by African-Americans by combining African rhythms and European harmonies. Ex.) Louis Armstrong was one of the first famous jazz musicians of the 1920’s. Video: “Tiger Rag” by, Louis Armstrong 1932 (2:57)

12 · Jazz music brought new forms of dancing.
Ex.) the Charleston and the shimmy Video: The Charleston – Harlem, NY, 1950’s (1:50) Video: Get Lite – Bronx, NY, 2007 (4:13)

13 · Older Americans worried that jazz music was a bad influence on the nation’s young people.
Audio: Roll ‘em Girls, Roll ‘em (1925) The Jazz Age , 1929 movie poster

14 Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
“Incident” by, Countee Cullen Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart-filled, head-filled with glee, I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger." I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember. Examples: Countee Cullen – writer/poet

15 Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
“Harlem” by, Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Examples: Langston Hughes – writer / poet

16 Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
Examples: Zora Neale Hurston – writer / poet “The whole matter revolves around the self-respect of my people. How much satisfaction can I get from a court order for somebody to associate with me who does not wish me near them?” - Zora Neale Hurston (1955)

17 Harlem Renaissance – flowering of African American culture in the 1920’s
Examples: Aaron Douglas - painter Into Bondage (1936)