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History Essay
An odd medley of jazz and fundamentalism, complacency and indignation. Is this a fair description of America in the 1920s?
The above statement tells us that the USA in the 1920s was a mixture of different things, by using the word medley. Pre 1920 jazz was mainly listened to and enjoyed by the black community, but this dramatically changed after 1920. Fundamentalism is where a person believes in the literal truth of the holy bible and how god created life on earth. In society there were many factions who were complacent and indignant.
Jazz music was now ever becoming a white person's music. Young white folk liked jazz as it was radical sexy and explicit. Jazz was popular with young whites because it was promoted by radios, records, magazines and towards the late 1920s in the cinema. With jazz came new dances such as the Charleston, which was created in a casino in Charleston, South Carolina. This was one of the most famous dances of the 1920s; also it is a famous dance of that decade. Jazz music had handfuls of stars in the 1920s such as Louis Armstrong who took the age of jazz to a new frontier by becoming the first ever jazz-soloist. Jazz music came from black African Americans. Jazz in its early days was not sexual or radical to a black person. Jazz music was played in small marching bands. The first place to put jazz music on the map was New Orleans, Louisiana. Near to the end of the 1920s jazz music was used as the backbone for the first ever-talking movie, it was called 'the jazz singer'.
History Essay
An odd medley of jazz and fundamentalism, complacency and indignation. Is this a fair description of America in the 1920s?
The above statement tells us that the USA in the 1920s was a mixture of different things, by using the word medley. Pre 1920 jazz was mainly listened to and enjoyed by the black community, but this dramatically changed after 1920. Fundamentalism is where a person believes in the literal truth of the holy bible and how god created life on earth. In society there were many factions who were complacent and indignant.
Jazz music was now ever becoming a white person's music. Young white folk liked jazz as it was radical sexy and explicit. Jazz was popular with young whites because it was promoted by radios, records, magazines and towards the late 1920s in the cinema. With jazz came new dances such as the Charleston, which was created in a casino in Charleston, South Carolina. This was one of the most famous dances of the 1920s; also it is a famous dance of that decade. Jazz music had handfuls of stars in the 1920s such as Louis Armstrong who took the age of jazz to a new frontier by becoming the first ever jazz-soloist. Jazz music came from black African Americans. Jazz in its early days was not sexual or radical to a black person. Jazz music was played in small marching bands. The first place to put jazz music on the map was New Orleans, Louisiana. Near to the end of the 1920s jazz music was used as the backbone for the first ever-talking movie, it was called 'the jazz singer'.
