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Moral panic in 1920s’ America was expressed in headlines such as one from the Kansas City Kansan of 16 January 1922 that trumpeted the perils of ‘Vampires, Jazz, Joyrides [and] Turkish Immorality’.
The Depression of 1920–1921 was a sharp deflationary recession in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries, beginning 14 months after the end of World War I. It lasted from January 1920 to July 1921. [1] The extent of the deflation was not only large, but large relative to the accompanying decline in real product.
of writings on the subject during the 1920s was that American music had failed. The unique problems of American composition as perceived by critics in the major American periodicals of that period' will be examined in this paper: that the composer had too little support, or too much; that Europe still blinded Americans to the accomplishments of ...
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Feb 5, 2019 · Historian Russell L. Johnson traces this early twentieth-century theory that jazz, with its discordant rhythms and off-beat timing, could cause physical illness or even disability. He finds the theory’s roots in the seismic shifts transforming American culture in the 1920s.
Apr 6, 2024 · April 6, 2024. History, Creativity, Culture, Society. The 1920s era, known as the Jazz Age, heralded a period of significant transformation in the music industry. This decade was marked by the emergence of jazz music as a defining cultural force in American history.
Mar 18, 2021 · In January of 1920, when postwar industrial production reached its zenith, the promised downturn began to take hold. Production fell by 32.5% over the following year, a decline second only to the Great Depression in American economic history and occurring over a shorter span. At the same time, prices plunged by over 15%, and unemployment ...
The turbulent decade of the 1920s sat at the center of this musical and cultural transformation as American life underwent dramatic changes in the first decades of the 20th century. Keywords. ragtime. jazz. blues. Harlem Renaissance. Great Depression. Swing Era. music. race relations. modernism. Subjects. 20th Century: Pre-1945. Cultural History.
