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The 1920's were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on one hand and traditional values on the other. Old and new tensions was the beginning shift from traditionalism to modernism, the tension manifested with the labor union movement and the kkk. The changes influence and social and political change with the "Jazz Singer" and "The Roaring Twenties."

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Bob Masteller shares how The Harlem Renaissance was the most exciting period in the history of jazz.

The Harlem Renaissance took place in Harlem, New York between the end of World War I and the middle of the 1930s. During this time period, Harlem was the cultural center for African American writers, artists, musicians and scholars.

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roots of our country's trade unions extend deep into the early history of America. Several of the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock in 1620 were working craftsmen. Captain John Smith, who led the ill-fated settlement in 1607 on Virginia's James River, pleaded with his sponsors in London to send him more craftsmen and working people.

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Social dancing in the early 20th century was marked by two rebellions against previous generations and social experiences. The first of these came with ragtime and the animal dances; the second came with jazz in the 1920s and dances like the Charleston and lindy hop. The dances of this second wave distanced themselves from ballroom, which was tied to certain expectations of race, class, and tradition. In dances like the Charleston, women and men could dance without partners, and cutting in during a night of dancing became common. These changes allowed women more freedom of choice and independence in this sector of the public sphere. The new dance forms also included more improvisation than ballroom, and were derived from African American and slave cultural forms, forming the jazz age, and the roaring twenties with new dances in the American Society.

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A revival is a awakening, in a church or community, of interest in and care for matters relating to a personal religion.
This is a picture of Aimee Semple McPherson driving around her “Gospel Car” around the country doing here revivals during 1918. McPherson spread Christianity throughout the world before touring America. She would often sing while she would be preaching. She was known for making a connection with her audience and thats what made her so different during the revival.

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Tension Between Old And New: The Beginning Shift From Traditionalism To Modernism

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Tension Between Old And New: The Beginning Shift From Traditionalism To Modernism

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Traditionalists wanted to live the simple life, and wanted to have a wife and kids, and mostly farm. Modernists were typically younger people, and wanted more excitement in life. This is when flappers, or women wearing short dresses and dancing, were invented. Traditionalists were people who had deep respect for long-held cultural and religious values. These values were reasons that provided order and stability to society. Modernists were  people who embraced new ideas, styles, and social trends. For them, traditional values were connecting dots that restricted both individual freedom and the pursuit of happiness.

As these groups fighted in the 1920s, American society became divided.  Defenders of traditionalism felt bad for the behavior of "flaming youth." They opposed drinking, and supported prohibition.Old religion faced off against modern science. The result was a kind of culture war.

The new values, referred to as modernism, were at the core of the youth movement and challenged the old, anti-modern, values of the generation before them. While anti-modernism valued the past, the modernists put a greater emphasis on the present and the future as the youth were always looking forward to what was next and what changes were coming their way. Urban living and fast-paced city life became the modernist movement while the anti-modernists stayed in small communities, farms, and villages. The ideal of community life of anti-modernism was being replaced by individuality in the sense that the self was no longer bound to the community. Even time itself was being redefined by the new modernist values with a nine to five work schedule shaping the lives of many of the city dwellers while the anti-modernists held a cyclic sense of time on their farms with the set seasons and harvest times. This modernist movement was
growing independence, liberation, and celebration of youth during this period. Adolescence were leaving their villages and farms to pursue lives in the city and encountered of new experiences and questions they had not encountered in their anti-modernist shelters.

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In What Ways Was The Tension Manifested?

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In What Ways Was The Tension Manifested?

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The tensions manifested from the violence of the KKK. The lynchings and burnings to court cases to the creation of laws and even to journalism. Even though the outburst of the KKK could definitely be considered manifestation of the old world, they wanted to keep the blacks while the new world tried to boost them up, end up doing it themselves for the manifestation tensions.

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How did the changes influence social and political change?

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How did the changes influence social and political change?

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An abundance of economic and social change swept across the country in the 1920s. Nicknames for the decade, such as “the Jazz Age” or “the Roaring Twenties" showed the excitement and the changes in social conventions that were taking place at the time. As the economy boomed, wages rose for most Americans and prices fell, resulting in a higher standard of living and a dramatic increase in consumer consumption. Although most women's lives were not radically transformed by “labor‐saving” home appliances or gaining the right to vote, young American women were changing the way they dressed, thought, and acted in a manner that shocked their more traditional parents. These changes were encouraged by the new mass media that included radio and motion pictures.