Culture in the 1920's

MUSIC:

Jazz legends and performers (ex. "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Bix Beiderbeck, Paul Whiteman, etc.)

Classical composers

Broadway Musicals (ex. George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Lerner and Lowe, Rogers and Hart, etc.)

Dances- Charleston, Black Bottom, etc.

the recording industry (improvements in technology, etc)

FADS, FEATS AND STUNTS:

flagpole sitting

Mah Jongg

crossword puzzles

barnstorming, etc.

FASHION AND STYLE:

changes in men's and women's clothing

hair styles

THE MOVIE INDUSTRY AND ITS "STARS":

(ex. Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, the Barrymores, Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Fatty Arbuckle, Clara Bow - the"it" girl, Laurel and Hardy, Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo, etc.)

movie moguls

ATHLETIC ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECORDS:

(ex. "Babe" Ruth, Knute Rockne and the "four horsemen", Red Grange, Jack Dempsey, Gertrude Ederle, Johnny Weismuller, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden and Helen Wills, The Negro League, etc.)

ART:

painters (Picasso, Dali, etc)

architecture

Art Deco

LITERATURE:

(ex. Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, H.L. Mencken, e.e. Cummings, T.S.Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, F. Scott Fitzgerald, etc.)

The Harlem Renaissance

"CELEBRITY" GANGSTERS:

(ex. Al "Scarface" Capone, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Machine Gun" Kelly, John Dillinger, The Purple Gang, etc.)

FAMOUS TRIALS:

Sacco and Vanzetti

Leopold and Loeb

Scopes "Monkey Trial"

The Court Marshall of Billy Mitchell, etc.