Charles Lindberg- Made the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic. May 20,1927.
On January 11, 1935, Earhart became the first aviator to fly solo from Honolulu, Hawaii to Oakland, California.
What new styles did writers, artists and composers experiment with in the decade?
Even before sound, movies offered a means of escape through romance and comedy
First sound movies: Jazz Singer (1927)
First animated with sound:
Steamboat Willie (1928)
By 1930 millions of Americans went to the movies each week
MUSIC AND ART
Famed composer George Gershwin merged traditional elements with American Jazz
Painters like Edward Hopper depicted the loneliness of American life
How did literature of the time express a clash of values within society?
The 1920s was one of the greatest literary eras in American history
Sinclair Lewis, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, wrote the novel, Babbitt
In Babbitt the main character ridicules American conformity and materialism.
WRITERS OF THE 1920s
Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald coined the phrase “Jazz Age” to describe the 1920s
Fitzgerald wrote
Paradise Lost and The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby reflected the emptiness of New York elite society
Ernest Hemingway, wounded in World War I, became one of the best-known authors of the era
In his novels, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, he criticized the glorification of war
His simple, straightforward style of writing set the literary standard
What was the Lost Generation?
Some writers such as Hemingway and John Dos Passos were so soured by American culture that they chose to settle in Europe
In Paris they formed a group that one writer called, “The Lost Generation”
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