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    The Jazz Age of the 1920s was a period of social and cultural change in America. Young people used jazz music and new styles of dress, like short dresses and bobbed hair for women, to rebel against traditional values. Women gained greater independence during this era after winning the right to vote. They went to parties without men and drove cars, shocking conservative society. Jazz was the dominant music genre and led to dance crazes like the Charleston. However, not all viewed the cultural changes positively, as seen in a Catholic newspaper's disapproval of revealing dances.

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    The Jazz Age of the 1920s was a period of social and cultural change in America. Young people used jazz music and new styles of dress, like short dresses and bobbed hair for women, to rebel against traditional values. Women gained greater independence during this era after winning the right to vote. They went to parties without men and drove cars, shocking conservative society. Jazz was the dominant music genre and led to dance crazes like the Charleston. However, not all viewed the cultural changes positively, as seen in a Catholic newspaper's disapproval of revealing dances.

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    The Jazz Age of the 1920s was a period of social and cultural change in America. Young people used jazz music and new styles of dress, like short dresses and bobbed hair for women, to rebel against traditional values. Women gained greater independence during this era after winning the right to vote. They went to parties without men and drove cars, shocking conservative society. Jazz was the dominant music genre and led to dance crazes like the Charleston. However, not all viewed the cultural changes positively, as seen in a Catholic newspaper's disapproval of revealing dances.

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    The Jazz Age

    ANDREA:

    F. Scott Fitzgerald described 1920s America as the Jazz Age - an era of


    speakeasies, short haircuts, even shorter dresses and jazz. The economy was
    booming and Americans could spend their disposable income on new radios,
    cars and trips to the cinema. World War One had destroyed old social
    conventions, allowing for new ideals and styles to take their place.

    The Jazz Age was an era for youth. Young people used jazz and fashion to
    rebel against the traditional culture of previous generations. Women, in
    particular, benefited on an economic and social level. Their fashion represented
    a greater social freedom. Flappers wore short dresses and cut their hair into a
    bob.

    Women were far more independent. The Flappers, as they were known, went to
    all-night parties without men to accompany them. They would also drive their
    own cars and would smoke in public. While it might not seem like anything
    remarkable, this kind of behaviour flew in the face of the conservative ideals of
    the time, including things like holding men’s hands without wearing gloves.

    This greater freedom came on the back of the Nineteenth Amendment of 1919
    which gave women the right to vote. Although, historians have argued that once
    women gained suffrage, their objectives became so disparate that the 1920s did
    little to advance feminism.
    Jazz was the soundtrack to the 1920s. It led to the creation of new dances such
    as the One Step, the Charleston and the Black Bottom. Again these dances
    differed from older, more traditional dances which were very much in keeping
    with conservative ideals. Benny Goodman, Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong
    were among the most famous people that defined the Jazz era.

    But not everyone was happy about the changes brought in by the 1920s; The
    Catholic Telegraph reported:
    "The music is sensuous, the female is only half dressed and the motions may
    not be described in a family newspaper. Suffice it to say that there are certain
    houses appropriate for such dances but these houses have been closed by
    law.”

    The huge popularity of radio made sports much more accessible. This made the
    1920s the era of sports champions. People like Babe Ruth and Bobby Jones
    became household names.

    The 1920s also saw the rise of Hollywood stars. In 1926 it is reported that
    around 100 million people every week would go to the movie theatre, of which
    there were around 200,000 across the USA. Once again dispelling with the
    traditions of previous decades - in which actors starring in movies would not be
    named -  the 1920s saw stars of the big screen begin to emerge, and with it
    came the chance to earn lots of money.

    Stars like Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle and Laurel and Hardy
    all rose to prominence with slapstick comedies the most popular among movie
    goers.

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