Culture & Minority Groups1920-45

Music

Hollywood

Literature

The Arts

Photography

Architecture

Harlem Renaissance

Music

• Jazz• Swing– Duke Ellington– Glenn Miller

• Gershwin– Broadway

• Woodie Guthrie– Depression Era

Hollywood

• Silent Film• First Oscars in 1927• First Talkie 1927: The Jazz Singer• Technicolor– Gone with the Wind– Wizard of Oz

Literature

• The Lost Generation– Ernest Hemingway– F. Scott Fitzgerald– Gertrude Stein

• William Faulkner• Edna St. Vincent Milay• Eugene O’Neill• John Steinbeck

The Arts

• Realism– Edward Hopper

• Modernist– Georgia O’Keefe

• Photography– Alfred Stieglitz– Dorothea Lange– Ansel Adams

Architecture

• Modernism– Skyscrapers– Empire State Building (1931)

• Frank Lloyd Wright– Organic architecture– Prairie School

• Art Deco– Geometric– Decorative

Harlem Renaissance

• Music– Jazz– Cotton Club

• Literature– Langston Hughes– Zora Neale Hurston– Richard Wright