Daily Life in Jazz Age America
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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Daily Life in Jazz Age America
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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Daily Life in Jazz Age America

Daily Life in Jazz Age America

by Steven L. Piott
Daily Life in Jazz Age America

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440861659
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/14/2019
Series: The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Steven L. Piott is emeritus professor of history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface xi

Introduction xv

Timeline xxi

1 Domestic Life 1

Transformative Social Forces and the Pace of Societal Change 1

Home and Family Life 7

The African American Experience 17

The Mexican American Experience 23

Document: Anne Martin, "Women and 'Their' Magazines" (1922) 30

Document: Leta S. Hollingworth, "For and against Birth Control" (1922) 33

2 Economic Life 37

Prosperity Decade? 37

Agricultural Workers 40

Mexican Laborers: Migrant Workers 45

Non-farmworkers 48

African American Workers: Sleeping Car Porters 52

Social Tensions and Cultural Conflicts during the 1920s 56

Document: Samuel Hopkins Adams, "On Sale Everywhere" (1921) and Excerpts from Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922) 67

Document: T. Arnold Hill, "The Dilemma of Negro Workers" (1926) 70

3 Intellectual Life 73

Education 73

Intellectual Influences 79

Elite Culture 79

The Emerging Mass Consumer Culture 88

The Harlem Renaissance 91

Document: John F. Carter Jr., "These Wild Young People': By One of Them" (1920) 99

Document: H. L. Mencken, "On Living in the United States" (1921) 101

4 Material Life 103

Housing 103

The Impact of the Automobile on the Material Landscape 111

Food 114

Clothing 122

Document: Elizabeth Robins Pennell, "Eats" (1922) 131

Document: G. Stanley Hall, "Flapper Americana Novissima" (1922) 133

5 Political Life 137

"Beyond Suffrage" 138

Politics in the 1920s: A Conservative Agenda 145

Politics and Prohibition 150

The Apathetic Voter 154

The Harding Scandals 158

Hoover's Response to the Depression 160

Document: "'Much-Surprised' City Officials Ousted by Women" (1920) 163

Document: "Shall Women Be Equal before the Law?" (1922) 164

6 Recreational Life 169

"Ain't We Got Fun?" 169

Radio 170

Motion Pictures 175

Music 180

Dance 188

Mass Spectator Sports 189

Fads and Crazes 196

Document: John R. McMahon, "Unspeakable Jazz Must Go!" (1921) 199

Document: "Medical Derision of Coue" (1922) 201

7 Religious Life 205

The State of Religion in the 1920s 205

The Rise of Religious Uncertainty 208

Religion in the African American Community 224

Religion in the Hispanic Community 228

Document: G. Bromley Oxnam, "The Mexican in Los Angeles from the Standpoint of the Religious Forces of the City" (1921) 232

Glossary 235

Bibliography 239

Index 247

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