The+Jazz+Age



Together as a class create the wiki page 'The Jazz Age'. It should contain as much information about Jazz in the 1920's as possible, as well as answering all the questions you researched in class. Pictures and fun/fascinating facts would be great too! The Jazz Age!!

**- By Kim and Chloe (: (For the picture)** Introduction: Jazz age is the time between the ending of World War 1 and the beginning of the Great Depression in October 1929 …by Rebexxx :)

**Why was jazz so popular in the 1920s?** In the 1920s, there were a lot of rebellious children who wanted something new and exciting; Jazz was the answer. It was something different and the parents hated it. Also, it was just after the war. So, people needed something to lift their spirits up from all of the sadness and remorse . Prohibition was going on at that time but many people ignored them and ‘speakeasies’ were opened- it was also seen to be a 'cool' place to be as it was also illegal. Jazz music was played there and this immensely boosted up the popularity of jazz. A lot of dances came along with jazz as well (e.g. Charleston, Black Bottom) and people liked them because they were new and danceable. Why did Jazz play a big part? Maybe because Jazz was upbeat, fresh and funky which people were looking for to add to their lives. This was a time of change, for the young generation to explore new things, however the elder generation saw the new changes as indecent. The young women who were known as Flappers, were fashionable women who exposed their bodies, had short hair, enjoyed going out, were seen as outrageous. Leagues like the Anti- flirt league was created by worried mothers who attempted to stop the flappers behaviors to spread lose, but somewhat failed at doing so. Hence, the craze of jazz went on and became immensely popular .  - By Kim and Chloe (:  **What is Jazz ?**  Jazz is a genre of music developed in America at the turn of the 20th century i.e. pre-World War I. The African Americans belonging to American society at the time lived in a constant struggle against racial discrimination and were still seen as lower class or slaves in the eyes of the White community. However, it is from these people that the immensely popular – especially among the younger generations – genre of music that was jazz was founded. Jazz music is described as the first “original art form” that emerged from the USA and is therefore sometimes referred to as “America’s Classical Music”. It is famous for improvisation (which is making up what you play). Its genres include Blues, Ragtime and Swing music. Typical instruments from this genre are saxophone, trumpet, vocals and tuba. It began in the 20s during Prohibition of alcohol. It was very popular in speakeasies (where bootleggers sold illegal alcohol) .  By Sarah and Bridie (: (:  <span style="color: #2b54e9; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">**FUN FACTS (:** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">- Louis Armstrong was the oldest person ever to score a chart topping single in 1964. - Dizzy the American legend jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, mentor and composer was the youngest of nine children. - Frank Sinatra never wore or owned a pair of blue jeans.

<span style="color: #009cff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 125.97%;">Jazz dance is an extension of African dance. "Jazz" is originally the name of a class of music, in music terms of the "Jazz" is the term was used after 1900, in that previously seemed called "Jass". Jazz in the early twentieth century, following the old jazz accompanied by the evolution of natural down, and also because playing on jazz has been a lively one, "Jazz" (jazz up) can there be noisy, manic, lively meaning. Jazz dance is the first black social dance accompanied by jazz music performances, popular in the rural American South, especially in the city of New Orleans a number of amateur dancers, they will at the party or club venue for jazz dance performances. By 1917, when the popular dancers to perform along the meaning of the lyrics, there is a named Benton Oels Choi (W. Benton Overstreet) wrote a song called "The Jazz Dance", which is the first songs of the "Jazz Dance" became a permanent jazz dance synonymous with the name of this jazz dance was born. <span style="color: #dd4b91; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> - By Joy (: <span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 104.97%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 129.6%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">

<span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;"> __Clothing and career.__ Before the Frist World War women lived restricted lives. They had to wear full-lenght dresses covering their feet,and their tight undrewear included whalebone corsets, which hampered their movements. They wore decorated and fancy hats and their hair had to be tied under the hat. Women at that time were meant to behave modestly and had do be educated and polite. If young unmarried women went out with a man they had to be accompained by an older women(married), a chaperon, which had the job to look after and supervise the girl during her date. At that time it would have been scandalouse for a unmarried women to meet alone with a man. During this time women were seen as ladies who stayed at home and looked after the family and children not having a propper job, in fact they weren't even allowed to vote. There were many other thing that women couldn't do in those times for example: it was socially unacceptable for a women to smoke in public (in fact in New York it was illegal) or drink, and have the right to drive a car.
 * What things were associeted with jazz (emotion, styles,clothes)?** [[image:file:///C:/Users/Vaio/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.png]][[image:file:///C:/Users/Vaio/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.png]]

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====<span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">Thing changed during the. Not only the way that women dresses but also the way they behaved. Young women's fashion of the 1920's was both trend and social statement, it was a break-off of the rigid Victorian way of life. ==== <span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">In the 20's <span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 120%;">, middle class women, became popular. Flappers were young fashionable women who decide to change the style of clothing of women and shoked oder people by almost everything they did. They shocked their parents in all sorts of ways. They wore short dresses which showed mostly their legs and arms, which at that time was something unecceptable. They wore short, bobbed hair and had it cut in men's barbers' shops instead of the laidies' hair dressers. Also the hats became smaller and simplier. Women also stopped wearing ristricted corsets and the clothes became looser and more comfortable to wear. Make up became for the first time extreamely popular. Many taboos dissapeared. Women started to smoke in public( the sales of cigarettes doubled). It became acceptable for women to drive and they also socialized with men more easily, chaperons were abboned. Finally in the 1920's women were allowed to vote throughout the USA. During the First World War, many women joined the workforce in new ares of work, and replace men at war. Women workers were quickly replaced by the war veterians when they returned from the war leading the owmen back to their old jobs. Despite this the number of working women incresed during the 1920s. Their greater earning power in the 20s attrcted advertisers, eager to get women to spend on the new consumer goods avalable.

Style before WW1 Style in the 1920s.

Lara. :)

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Jazz was the new craze and people who preferred the old way didn't like this. Jazz represented the modernisation and soem people thought some of the things that came along with it caused by the music and thought it was rude, for example how close the couple danced was very inapropriate. People also disliked it because mostly black people played the music. It wasn't necessarily their fault but it was responsible for the discomfort. Jazz started playing in brothels and burlesque houses that made it seem immoral and thought it was linked to the Devil. Jazz was also famous in speakeasies which also made it seem immoral and inapropriate as drunks where listening to it
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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There was some political opposition but most could not express their views in congress. There were many groups of people that people that opposed the music but the majority of the country were with the new music. There wasn’t much that could be put up against it in court. However the court was very prejudice and sometimes clubs would be closed for example once a pregnant won a case against a club because she claimed that her fetus could die if the music kept on playing and the club was closed down. =====

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