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Beginning of Modernism
1890 is when modernism started -
Jazz age
The jazz aged started in the 1920s and is relatable to Gatsby beacuse the time of the book is in the jazz age. -
Cigaretts
In the 1920s Smoking became very popular espcially for women. Gatsby and many other people were always smoking and partying. -
Mitchell Parish
Mitchell Parish is a famous jazz song wrtier he was jewish and helped Hoagy Carmichael with his song Stardust. -
John Scopes
this man named John Scopes went on trial for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in defiance of a Tennessee law. -
Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagy Carmichael was a famous jazz artist he is famous for four of the most recorded songs. He was also an actor. -
Alcohol
Alcohol was illegal during this time and because it was illegal people were being defiant and wanted it more. -
Ted Lewis Jazz Band
Ted Lewis was a famous band in the 1920s and was very creative in his music. -
Cole Porter
Cole Porter was a famous jazz artist and made a song called anything goes talking about how in the jazz age no one cared about rules and did what they want. -
African americans
many African American sharecroppers from the South were leaving their farms in record numbers to live and work in places like Chicago and New York City. -
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was a famous black jazz artist who was famous during this period of time. -
Irving Berlin's
Irving Berlin was considered one of the greatest song wtiters of american history. -
Jazz age art
This picture was created in the 1920s and showing how people are listening to jazz music and always throwing parties -
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Composers
this is was when the concert composers reached its peak in Gatsby they always had bands and composers playing music. -
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh becomes first pilot to fly solo across Atlantic The Jazz Singer becomes first “talkie." this is relevent to Gatsby because people are always coming up with new ideas and doing new things. -
Radios in the household
In the 1930s almost everyone had radios in thier household Gatsby was always listeing to music and having parties.
