The Roaring Twenties

Question 1

Jazz Music: What is the 1920s sometimes reffered to as?

Answer 1

‘Jazz Age’
new form of music

Question 2

Jazz Music: Where did it originate from?

Answer 2

Southern States where African-Americans were and spread north when they moved for better work

Question 3

Jazz Music: What is it known for?

Answer 3

improvisation, fast tempos and lively beats

Question 4

Jazz Music: Who appealed most to this genre?

Answer 4

young black and white
became the most popular music style in dancehalls, bars & nightclubs in big cities like New York/Chicago

Question 5

Jazz Music: Give 3 examples of people who excelled in this opportunity.

Answer 5

Louis Armstrong
Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington

Question 6

Jazz Music: What are 4 dances that became popular?

Answer 6

charleston
one step
tango
black bottom

Question 7

Jazz Music: Who criticised jazz?

Answer 7

older gens
felt that it encouraged drunkeness and dances too sexual

Question 8

Cinema: Where was the most popular space and why?

Answer 8

Hollywood
had all-year round sunshine

Question 9

Cinema: What were the weekly audience from 1919 compared to 1930?

Answer 9

in 1919: 35 mil
in 1930: 100 mil

Question 10

Cinema: What were ‘star system’s?

Answer 10

studios intorduced it to promote main actors: magazine interviews, radio appearances, public appearances

Question 11

Cinema: What are 3 famous actors?

Answer 11

Charlie Chaplin
Rudolph Valentino
Clara Bow

Question 12

Cinema: By 1929 how many films were made/yr by Hollywood?

Answer 12

over 500 films
this meant employment & entertainment

Question 13

Cinema: What is a talkie and what was the first?

Answer 13

first feature length to include sound
Jazz Singer- 1927

Question 14

Cinema: Who opposed this and why?

Answer 14

older gens
worried abt the sexual content of films and what it’d do to youth– hollywood introduced Hayes Code (strict rules inc. ban nudity)

Question 15

Sport: