The Arts of the 1920s and 1930s

THE ARTS OF THE 1920S AND 1930S

BUT… Tying up some loose ends on foreign

policy and disarmament…

Kellogg-Briand Pact An effort to outlaw all future wars The pact renounced the aggressive use

of force to achieve national ends. Permitted defensive wars No accountability

Pro-Business Foreign Diplomacy Peacefully resolved attempted Mexican

government takeover of mineral and oil resources to protect American properties

Winning of oil-drilling rights for U.S. companies in the Middle East

Paying off War Debts Germany was bankrupt and had high

inflation Tariffs made matters worse Dawes Plan (1924)- cycle of payments

from U.S. to Germany, Germany to the Allies, Britain and France to the U.S.

After stock market crash in 1929, U.S. banks stopped loaning to Germany

The Great Migration Relocation of 6 million African Americans

from the rural South to cities in the North, Midwest and West

Poor work opportunities and discrimination prompted the migration

Around 1916, when the Great Migration began, a factory wage in the urban North was typically three times more than what blacks could expect to make working the land in the rural South.

AND NOW… THE ARTS!

Literature John Steinbeck F. Scott Fitzgerald Langston Hughes

As I Grew OlderIt was a long time ago.I have almost

forgotten my dream.But it was there then,In front of me,Bright like a sun--My dream.And then the wall rose,Rose slowly,Slowly,Between me and my

dream.Rose until it touched

the sky--

The wall.Shadow.I am black.I lie down in the

shadow.No longer the light of

my dream before me,

Above me.Only the thick wall.Only the shadow.My hands!My dark hands!Break through the

wall!Find my dream!Help me to shatter this

darkness,To smash this night,To break this shadowInto a thousand lights

of sun,Into a thousand

whirling dreamsOf sun!

Art Georgia O’Keeffe Jacob Lawrence

Music- The Jazz Age! The Jazz Age! Duke Ellington Louis Armstrong Bessie Smith Aaron Copland George Gerswhin

Station Learning Four Stations

1. Overview of the Harlem Renaissance2. Art3. Literature4. Music

What were the contributions of these leaders?

Aaron Copland Pieces that reflect the “sound of

American music” “Fanfare for the Common Man,”

“Appalachian Spring,” “Rodeo” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr6Cn

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Duke Ellington Composer, pianist, and big-band leader “It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got

That Swing)” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9pf

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Louis Armstrong Jazz musician, trumpet player, singer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB8U

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George Gershwin Popular, classic, and jazz pieces Rhapsody in Blue

Bessie Smith

F. Scott Fitzgerald

John Steinbeck

Georgia O’Keeffe

Jacob Lawrence

Sources As I Grew Older: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-i-grew-older/ Copland: http://ohmygodot.blogspot.com/2011/07/out-spotlight.html Ellington: http://www2.concordmusicgroup.com/artists/Duke-Ellington-And-His-Orchestra/ Armstrong: http://www.npr.org/2007/08/15/12624640/louis-armstrong-the-trumpeter Gershwin:

http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-11017/George-Gershwin-working-on-the-score-for-Porgy-and-Bess

Smith: http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2012/03/who-killed-bessie-smith/bessie-smith/

Fitzgerald: http://yabookreviewer.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/new-f-scott-fitzgerald-story-is-discovered-and-published-by-the-new-yorker/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby, http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/f-scott-fitzgerald/tales-of-jazz-age.htm

Steinbeck: http://butterybooks.com/bookclubpartyideas/east-of-eden-by-john-steinbeck/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck, http://blue-jeans-girl.blogspot.com/2010/10/book-of-mice-and-men-john-steinbeck.html

O’Keeffe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O'Keeffe, http://www.homehotel.com/Georgia-OKeefe-Room, http://www.bodegabayheritagegallery.com/BBH_Gallery_Monthly_Aug_09.htm

Lawrence: http://atravelingcarr.blogspot.com/2012/07/stories-of-great-migration.html