1920s Pop Culture by Gifty Andoh

A popular culture back in the 1920s is Jazz music

27gandoh — 2024-09-24 13:58:38 UTC

In the 1920s a big part of pop culture was jazz music. During all the hardships of African American, they found some kind of comfort in jazz. According to

York news, "The history of jazz proves that black musicians are the inventors and innovators of jazz, and that has been a major accomplishment of blacks". Music still continues to be a big part of black culture to this day. Even in the 2020s music culture.

The flapper was a popular culture

27gandoh — 2024-09-24 14:05:53 UTC

The flapper was a popular culture in women who were usually described as independent too wild or sexually liberated. The Flapper changed the way women were viewed and made people realize that women were more than housewives. It's similar to today's pop culture, today men, women and people of other genders can dress how they want to and not to conform to societal standards.

Dance crazes was another popular culture back in the 1920s

27gandoh — 2024-09-24 14:09:38 UTC

The Charleston, Black Bottom, and the Shimmy were popular dance moves that were often criticized by Victorian moralists

Car culture became a huge part of pop culture in the 1920s

27gandoh — 2024-09-24 14:16:34 UTC

The rise of new advanced technologies, made more people fall in love with it and it became vision of freedom for young people

The Radio in the 1920s became a big culture because that's where everyone received their news and found out what was going on

27gandoh — 2024-09-24 14:23:20 UTC

The radio was a big culture because it would allow people to listen at home and figure out what's happening and it brought families together and connected americans that were far from each other

Alcohol prohibition act

27gandoh — 2024-09-24 14:28:34 UTC

The prohibition of alcohol brought together men, women young adults, adults and even people of color because of their shared interest.

1920s art

27gandoh — 2024-09-24 14:31:21 UTC

1920s art changed how art was viewed. It was used as advertisement, political campaign, literature and many more.

sources

2024-09-24 14:41:55 UTC

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/roaring-twenties-history

https://www.ncpedia.org/history/20th-Century/1920s

27gandoh — 2024-09-25 17:11:49 UTC

Although, people think that the 1920s was not an influential period because there were other things that were more influential, the 1920s was a very influential time period in American history and shaped not only how modern women are viewed in today's century but black culture and many others.