Steven Piott

Daily Life in Jazz Age America

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ABC-Clio, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781440861659
• ISBN-10: 144086165X
• Artikelnr.: 55538286

Autorenporträt

Steven L. Piott

Inhaltsangabe

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 Coué"
(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