American Culture and Society
- Created by: Elisabeth Skenderi
- Created on: 03-05-13 16:01
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- American Culture and Society
- Women
- The number of working women increased by 25 per cent
- In 1920, all women were given the right to vote
- 'Flappers' smoked in public, danced the new dances, and were sexually liberated
- Started wearing trousers instead of skirts
- Wore short hair and makeup
- Car
- Freedom to enjoy new leisure activities - cinema, sports stadia, dancehall
- Explore the countryside
- Go on holidays and short breaks
- Created a more mobile society
- Produced every 10 seconds
- Sport
- Peope had more leisure time
- Improved wages - People had the money to pay for tickets
- Improved transport
- More opportunities to participate in sport
- Popular Sports- Baseball, boxing, american football, tennis, golf
- Jazz
- Became the great attractiob of the night clubs & speakeasis
- Became popular with middle-class whites, (Flappers)
- Brought into homes through radio broadcasts
- New York & Clevelan banned Jazz performances
- Many Black Musicians could not read music, so they improvised
- Most famous Jazz venue - Cotton Club, in Harlem, New York
- Movies & Film Stars
- Movies were accused of lowering mora standards - using movie stars as sex symbols
- The lifestyle of some Hollywood stars attracted critisism - stories of wild parties & love affairs
- By 1930 there were 303,000 cinemas
- Famous movie stars- Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Clara Bow
- Radio
- Not everyone could read, so the radio became a very important means of communicating news and information to the people.
- Mass production helped to lower the cost of buying them
- Listened to Sports, Adverts, Music
- Due to everyone owning a Radio, there was a dramatic increase in political & social awarness
- By the end of the 1920s, more than 50 million peope owned one.
- Women
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