We all know that the 1930’s was a very significant part of the American history. During this time period The Great depression took place. It caused a drastic decline in the world's economy, many people had to become unemployed and caused worldwide poverty. Even though during this time period everyone was upset and stressed, people managed to find a way to lighten up the mood. Even during the hard times the people faced, they still needed to be entertained. Fashion, music and entertainment were greatly affected during the 1930’s because it was influenced by The Great Depression. Fashion was a huge part of the 1930’s and it was affected during The Great Depression. During this time, fashion was heavily influenced by the Great Wall Street Crash. Although there were many hardships, it seemed that the woman cared greatly about fashion. “...companies started researching new material to manufacture due to the financial crisis...” (Lib). Since The Great …show more content…
Music in the 1930’s mainly consisted of Folk, Jazz, Swing Country and Western Music. Folk was the most popular because everyone in the community enjoyed it and could join in and take part by singing. “The era provided music, popular songs, and dancing to help comfort the lives of many who were suffering.” (Ent). Many people didn’t have much to do because the stock market had crashed. So they would listen to music to calm down and take their minds of their hardships that they were facing. Radio's were also wildly popular during this time, and many people would listen for their favorite tunes to come up. Most of the songs were heavily influenced by the wars. World War I had already finished and the world was now going into World War II. “War songs became extremely popular…” (Lib). Most song symbolized war and became popular through the use of radios. Among the unemployed, there were artist and performers of many types. They all helped people enjoy life in the
Entertain The Pain! America’s most fearful nightmare brewed like a horror film coming to life in the1930s. Families starved, unemployment rate skyrocketed in a short amount of time and the stock market crash in 1929. Society as a whole suffered greatly, as the 1930s was known to be the hardest time in American history.
The 1930’s was one of the worst decades. The stock market crashed, sending the country into economic depression. Many people in the lower class lost their jobs as businesses shut down. The presidential election of 1932 was affected majorly since a number of the people hated Hoover’s response to the economic crisis. Conditions were really bad, especially for African Americans.
1930’s From the Depression to the Franklin Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought hope as he promised “prompt, vigorous action, and as asserted in his Inaugural Address, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” FDR was the president during the Depression, and from that moment on, he turned America around. The 1930’s featured new fashions, lots of inventions, and unfortunately the Great Depression. The 1930’s in the United States was a rough time.
Molly Mangan Mrs. Dati Social Studies 27 March 2017 The “Roaring” Twenties In the 1920s our country boomed, women got more rights, people could buy more expensive goods with installment buying, and cars became more affordable. With all these changes people had more leisure time. With their extra time people went to movies, participated in fads, and much more!
When scholars and adults think of the 1930’s they immediately think of the Great Depression. A crisis that started at the end of the 1920’s lasted throughout the whole entire 30’s. The effects still reminiscent in our culture today. No one remembers or imagines the feats and accomplishments that were made in the 1930’s all they can imagine is children, women, or men on the streets begging for food or money. The Economic Depression as a whole created one of the bleakest decades in US history.
Fashion became an important part of the 1950’s with the culture changes and social changes. After World War 2 was over there was a bigger break of fabrics, giving them a new look of fashion. By this happening in the 50’s clothing became a way to express society 's individual identity in the decade. Russia’s climate affected women’s fashion in the 50’s majorly.
Prohibition With alcohol prohibited with the Eighteenth amendment but instead that boosted the amount of crimes being committed although people did make them illegally Harlem Renaissance African American musicians, writers, and painters became a thing they had a huge impact during the roaring twenties. Jazz Age Newest type of music style which became Jazz , which different races became attracted to and it became a big thing in the 1920’s. New Roles for Women Women were starting to express themselves by showing their ankles they were called flappers, the style of clothes they wore were becoming modern .Some even cut their hair a little short they had careers and that was the end of Women suffrage.
Though only a decade apart the 1920’s and the 1930’s were extremely different. The 1920’ was called the roaring twenties due to the exuberant lifestyles during the decade. The 1930’s was called the Great Depression because unemployment was high and there was a severe drought that damaged the agriculture industry. The 1920’s and the 1930’s were also similar in little ways such as entertainment.
In the time WW1, a wild new popular culture emerged in the United States. In part, it was a hedonistic and extravagant reaction to the hardship and austerity experienced during the war. Some have referred to it as the Roaring Twenties, while others have called it the Jazz Age. When one speaks of the Jazz Age, what comes to mind is a decade of partying, of the Charleston and jazz bands, of female flappers and loose morals, of bathtub gin and speakeasies, all combined and intertwined into a celebration of American technology and ingenuity that, over the course of a decade, provided average U.S. families the materialistic conveniences of automobiles and modern appliances. A truly remarkable chapter of American history, Jazz was the soundtrack to it and came to embody the attitude of the burgeoning counterculture.
This led to creative, and mind you interesting, rock that Americans loved like "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by The Beatles. Aside from the above,
The 1920s carried much change in society. Some of these changes were more rights for women, jazz music, and prohibition. The people of the 1920s were disillusioned by society lacking in idealism and vision, sense of personal alienation, and Americans were obsessed with materialism and outmoded moral values (The Roaring Twenties).Cultural changes were strongly influenced by the destruction of World War I ending 1918. America needed to recover and with it youth rebelled against the norms of the older generations.
People are partying. The word of money fills in the air. People being miserable everywhere. These events were the daily lifestyle of people living in the 1920’s. The 1920’s was a prosperous time for America after World War I because after the war, the economy raised people’s hopes of being in the upper class.
The 1920s to late 1930s were a very controversial. A lot changed and flipped back and forth. The 1920s were full of cultural change. We were very conservative and people wanted change. After the stock market crash the government want to help bring Americans out of the gutter with the bad economy.
The 1920s influence is still seen in today 's culture, many people still embrace the 1920s as an age of great change and individualism. This age made woman who they are today, not only through fashion but by breaking down barriers to new forms of lifestyles not discovered by the common people. Not only was fashion used to express the rebellious lifestyle but today it is used to express who people are and where they come from as in what their occupation is as well as gender and race. Without the fashion of the 1920s fashion would be but a synonym for clothing and would have no meaning or power towards it. Therefore the 1920s was the most influential time period for men and woman’s fashion but mostly woman’s fashion because it broke boundaries so that women could succede
Music was mostly listened to by soldiers in World War I ( Hooper ). For example, some songs that soldiers listened to were, “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag”, “Keep the Home Fires Burning”, and “Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning” ( Hooper). Music was mostly essential for teenagers and dancing events ( Barrett).