HIST 112 1st Edition Lecture 19Cole Porter and the Roaring 20sOutline of Last Lecture I. Discussion of TreatyII. The Treaty of VersaillesIII. Reaction to treatyOutline of Current LectureI. Cole PorterII. The Jazz AgeIII. ProhibitionIV. LifestyleCurrent LectureKey Terms Cole Porter “Anything Goes” “You’re the Top” Flapper 18th Amendment Mae West “The Jazz Singer”Cole Porter Songs called “Anything goes” and “You’re the top” Life and music embody attitude of the era Roaring 20s Loosening of America’s social morays Seem innocent now, but were anxiety-provoking then Born in 1891 to a fairly affluent family in Indiana Takes up violin at 6, piano at 8 Writes first operetta at 10 Goes to Yale to study law, joins glee club, acapella club Studies law at Yale for 1 year, drops out Starts producing music for Broadway (commercial failures)These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Moves to France just before WWI Apartment was a “party pad” (drugs, sex, alcohol) 1918 marries Linda Lee Taylor Married for 34 years Has affairs with men and women Marriage of convenience—she gets social status, he gets appearance of conventional lifestyle Returns to US Writes Paris for Broadway in 1928 Writes “Let’s do it,” “Love for sale,” and “You’re the top”The Jazz Age World being turned upside down Jazz booms across America Flappers Women who had their own job, money Challenged how young women behave Smoke, drank, wore short dresses and short hair Wanted independence and their own decisions 19th amendment—women’s suffrage More women in work force Some women are independent by necessity (e.g. parents died of Spanish influenza) “Masculine women, feminine men” Rejecting older traditions of courting Women first presented as sex icons (Mae West)Prohibition 18th amendment Concerned about social repercussions of alcohol Speakeasies A lot of BAD alcohol Cocktails grow in popularity Old-fashioned, martini Make unfathomable amounts of money getting bootlegged alcohol Leads way to smuggling other things E.g. Al CaponeLifestyle Porter’s music also embraces consumer culture Spectator sports grow in popularity First talking motion picture: The Jazz Singer Great prosperity, average Americans getting rich (until crash) Several Republican presidents in a row, more laissez faire economy Technology changes transportation, acquisition of information,
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