Examples Of Conservatism In The 1920's

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According to Merriam Webster dictionary, revolutionary is defined as constituting or bringing about a major or fundamental change. The nineteen twenties were liberal socially and economically. The nineteen twenties was a revolution of liberalism because women of the nineteen twenties, such as flappers, and the introduction of jazz music.
Admittedly the twenties were conservative because of the Prohibition laws. This conservatism was not revolutionary because it was weighing the needs of more over the needs of a few. Zietz exclaims that “Prohibition was the most successful achievement of anti-modern forces of the 1920s” (229). The Eighteenth Amendment was ratified, which was an authorization on the ban of the production and sale of alcoholic …show more content…

The nineteen twenties introduced new music in the Jazz Age. The new music created was jazz, which included improvisation and syncopation in its style and most times played on brass instruments such as, trumpets, trombones, and saxophones. Jazz separated with mainstream music of the white culture that was referred to as classical. Jazz was originally an African-American genre, but the urban young people rebelling against their conservative cultured parents also enjoyed it. Jazz music was a part of the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a neighborhood that broke out in African American literature, art, and music. Jazz was popular in illegal bars, flappers, and more open liberal culture of the cities. This period of Renaissance was pronounced as a rise in black culture, which encouraged experimentation and the development of black nationalism. One of the concepts of the Harlem Renaissance was the New Negro. The New Negro rejected the submissive and accepted the lives led by the “old negroes.” The New Negroes also pushed for a more positive black population that would not accept racism, segregation, or second class treatment. The Harlem Renaissance was also known for its art. Alain Locke was the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” for his book The New Negro. Alain Locke wrote about the transformation “as not relying on older time-worn models, but, rather, embracing a new psychology and new spirit” (Locke 1938). Alain Locke also brought together a few of the greatest African-American poets and authors who promoted the new culture of independence. Writers like Zora Neale Hurston who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God, which tells of life in the South for poor black people, and Countee Cullen who wrote I Have a Rendezvous with Life, Color, and The Black Christ and Other Poems. Langston Hughes also became an outstanding poet with his writings that

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