Title Daily life in Jazz Age America / Steven L. Piott

Published Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 254 pages) : illustrations Series The Greenwood press daily life through history series Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series Contents Machine generated contents note: 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 Coue" (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) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 23, 2019) Subject Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century Nineteen twenties. Nineteen thirties. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Civilization Nineteen thirties Nineteen twenties Popular culture Social conditions SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139943 United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century United States -- History -- 1913-1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140296 United States -- History -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140299 Subject United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781440861666 1440861668

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