The Roaring 20s / The Jazz Age

World War I Ended ______________________

_______________________ and increase availability of
_________________ lead to innovations in:
o Film from silent films to talkies
o ______________________
o Radio
o ______________________
o ______________________
o Music (JAZZ)
Women in the 1920s
o August 18th 1920 - __________________________________
o ______________________________________________________
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o fashion challenged and changed by _____________
Great Depression
Stock market crashed on 10/29/1929

Jazz Age The period from the end of

WWI to the Great Depression

Jazz was strongly associated with

___________________________________________
Based strongly in large cities with
___________________________________
___________________ and _____________________
Popularity of modern _______________ spread during the 20s
Jazz became increasingly popular with
_________________________
____________________ = most popular dance music
_________________________
Nonsense words to express emotion like an instrument
Popular Artists
Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocalist
Louis Armstrong Trumpeter, Jazz Vocalist
Duke Ellington
Count Basie

Jazz Age Play List

Maple Leaf Rag Scott Joplin
Poplar Hit
Ragtime (popular dance music)
Sweet Georgia Brown Johnny Mercer

Note developing big band ensemble

King of the Bungaloos - Gene Greene (famous vocalist)
One of the earliest recordings of scat singing