AMH 2020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Overproduction, Louis Armstrong, Domestic Violence
Document Summary
1920 was perhaps the most dynamic decade in american history, a legendary era bounded on both ends by tragedies: the butchery of the great war and the miseries of the great depression. Growth happened so quickly and dramatic social change. The great war (world war i) created impulses for change. Speakeasies: night clubs, illegal liquor, illegal gambling, exclusive, dancing, and you could only get into the one you were accepted into: they were segregated. Tradition was being shattered and undermined by everything that was going on. Tradition was not widely accepted, you could now be your own person. 2 major themes that run through this era: 2 twin themes: myth/reality and modernism/fundamentalism. Modernist were those who rejected traditional values, and propose new radical outlandish ways of doing things. Fundamentalists were people who literally take the bible and have militant and aggressiveness towards liberal beliefs: the 3 c"s of the 1920"s: consumerism, change, and conflict, the new economic order = 1920"s.
