The 1920s era is described as roaring because the environment during that time is totally hyped up. Sometimes, it is also named as the Jazz Age, the Age of Intolerance or the Age of Wonderful Nonsense. Many names may be associated with this era but this period is simply the advent of Modern United States. From the 1920's hairstyles to the well-known conquests of jazz, the Roaring Twenties exemplifies a time of change for everyone, a change that may somehow be viewed as both good and bad for modern America.
The term, Roaring Twenties, not only covers North America but also London, Paris and Berlin. It brought about a development of social, artistic and cultural dynamics that greatly affected their way of life during that period.
There were close to 150,000 anarchists or Communists living in the U.S. during this decade. North American public was baffled and this confusion spread rapidly to Europe which was still rebuilding itself during that time. North America, on the other hand, was headed the other direction and went back into provincialism. Ku Klux Klan reappeared and immigration laws started to be restraining and limiting.
The twenties was the end of the first word war and weapons were no longer needed so the US focused into a more peaceful economy. Minimum wage was at $5 per workday which was good at that time. Development of infrastructures started to soar high. Because of these developments, America became the richest country in the world.
The second half of the roaring twenties was also called the Golden Twenties since economic development soared in Germany, Britain and France.
The 1920s steered and enriched American writing with amazing works from renowned authors like Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner, F., Scott Fitzgerald, Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. Along with these development was the advent of Jazz music. The genre of Jazz, which started out as a medium for expressing African sentiments, now produced great music players like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson. Some have even brought their jazz influences to Broadway and concert halls.
Entertainment today is a product of the entertainment during the twenties. Alice in Wonderland, the first cartoon that Walt Disney produced, happened during the twenties. Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino are a few of the great actors during that period who got great box office success and they introduced dances including Foxtrot, Charleston and Flagpole sitting and flying stunts. This period was also the time of Babe Ruth and other sport figures who later became heroes.
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The 1920's was considered to be the dawn of discontinuity and the start of modernity that broke the old traditions and gave rise to newer, bolder and more more aggressive norms. Since then, a sharper line of definition has been in place to differentiate the roaring 20's and the eras that came before it.
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