Jazz
The spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. It is one of the defining elements of jazz.
What is jazz improvisation?
The author of "The Great Gatsby."
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
This political party dominated politics in the 1920s.
What is the Republican Party?
A subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.
What are "flappers"?
A type of movie from the 20s with no synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards.
What is a silent film?
A jazz trumpeter, bandleader and singer known for songs like "What a Wonderful World,” “Hello, Dolly,” ”Star Dust” and "La Vie En Rose.”
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Chief developer of the assembly line technique of mass production and owner of a famous American motor company that helped provide many jobs in the 20s.
Who is Henry Ford?
An eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is often considered to represent the United States financial market as a whole.
What is Wall Street?
A popular dance named after a harbor city in South Carolina.
What is the Charleston?
A sign that was erected in 1923 by Los Angeles Times publisher and real estate developer Harry Chandler at a cost of $21,000. Each original letter was 30 feet wide and 43 feet tall and attached to telephone poles. Four thousand light bulbs illuminated the massive marquis.
What is The Hollywood Sign?
The type of bars that sold illegal liquor, often found in Harlem, where jazz musicians would perform.
What is a speakeasy?
30th U.S. President from 1923-1929 who famously said "The chief business of the American people is business" and that "America must be kept American."
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
An economic philosophy of free-market capitalism that opposes government intervention. Republican presidents of the 1920s allowed businesses to do what they wanted with little government interference.
What is "laissez-faire" capitalism?
A name used to describe a group of American writers during the 20s, including Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound.
What is the "Lost Generation"?
An English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer with an iconic black hat and small mustache who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He starred in "The Kid" (1921).
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
What people often consider to be the era/historical event that ended the Jazz Age.
What is the Great Depression?
29th President of the U.S. from 1921-1923. After his death, a number of scandals were exposed, including a bribery scandal called Teapot Dome.
Who is Warren G. Harding?
The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution–which banned the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors and went into effect in 1920.
A city that became the "Capital of Black America"?
What is Harlem, New York?
The first feature-length movie with synchronized dialogue, released in 1927. It marked the ascendancy of “talkies” and the end of the silent-film era.
An originator of big-band jazz, this person was an American composer, pianist and bandleader who composed thousands of scores over his 50-year career. Some of his songs include "Satin Doll" and "Prelude to a Kiss"
Who is Duke Ellington?
One of the biggest celebrities of the 20s for flying across the Atlantic ocean by himself without stopping.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
The illegal production and sale of liquor during the 20s.
What is "bootlegging"?
A white supremacist terrorist and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Catholics, Native Americans as well as immigrants. They grew nationwide in the 20s.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Five large companies (RKO Radio Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) came to be known as the _______ in trade publications
What is "The Big-Five" Studios?