Daily Life in Jazz Age America
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 14 June 2019
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781440861659
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 238x164x22 mm
- Weight 580 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 bw illus 0
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Long description:
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This volume reveals the everyday actions of individuals and their reflections on their lives during the 1920s.
The Jazz Age was a tumultuous time for Americans as they attempted to come to terms with ""modernity."" Daily Life in Jazz Age America tells the story of how all Americans-blacks and whites, women and men, workers, employers, consumers, and activists-contended with new cultural attitudes as well as persistent racial, ethnic, and class tensions.
The book provides a broad examination of American society during the 1920s. Organized thematically, it covers rural and urban America; the changing nature of gender relationships; race relations; popular culture; the rise of mass spectator sports; and religion. Appropriate for general readers and students of history, Daily Life in Jazz Age America provides an informed and compelling narrative history and analysis of daily life within the context of broad historical change.
Table of Contents:
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Preface
Introduction
Timeline
1. Domestic Life
Transformative Social Forces and the Pace of Societal Change
Home and Family Life
The African American Experience
The Mexican American Experience
Document: Anne Martin, ""Women and 'Their' Magazines"" (1922)
Document: Leta S. Hollingworth, ""For and against Birth Control"" (1922)
2. Economic Life
Prosperity Decade?
Agricultural Workers
Mexican Laborers: Migrant Workers
Non-farmworkers
African American Workers: Sleeping Car Porters
Social Tensions and Cultural Conflicts during the 1920s
Document: Samuel Hopkins Adams, ""On Sale Everywhere"" (1921) and Excerpts from Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922)
Document: T. Arnold Hill, ""The Dilemma of Negro Workers"" (1926)
3. Intellectual Life
Education
Intellectual Influences
Elite Culture
The Emerging Mass Consumer Culture
The Harlem Renaissance
Document: John F. Carter Jr., ""'These Wild Young People': By One of Them"" (1920)
Document: H. L. Mencken, ""On Living in the United States"" (1921)
4. Material Life
Housing
The Impact of the Automobile on the Material Landscape
Food
Clothing
Document: Elizabeth Robins Pennell, ""Eats"" (1922)
Document: G. Stanley Hall, ""Flapper Americana Novissima"" (1922)
5. Political Life
""Beyond Suffrage""
Politics in the 1920s: A Conservative Agenda
Politics and Prohibition
The Apathetic Voter
The Harding Scandals
Hoover's Response to the Depression
Document: ""'Much-Surprised' City Officials Ousted by Women"" (1920)
Document: ""Shall Women Be Equal before the Law?"" (1922)
6. Recreational Life
""Ain't We Got Fun?""
Radio
Motion Pictures
Music
Dance
Mass Spectator Sports
Fads and Crazes
Document: John R. McMahon, ""Unspeakable Jazz Must Go!"" (1921)
Document: ""Medical Derision of Couï¿1⁄2"" (1922)
7. Religious Life
The State of Religion in the 1920s
The Rise of Religious Uncertainty
Religion in the African American Community
Religion in the Hispanic Community
Document: G. Bromley Oxnam, ""The Mexican in Los Angeles from the Standpoint of the Religious Forces of the City"" (1921)
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
