Flappers
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Flappers

A Guide to an American Subculture

  1. 164 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Flappers

A Guide to an American Subculture

About this book

This book offers an examination of the Roaring Twenties in the United States, focusing on the vibrant icon of the newly liberated woman—the flapper—that came to embody the Jazz Age. Flappers takes readers back to the time of speakeasies, gangsters, dance bands, and silent film stars, offering a fresh look at the Jazz Age by focusing on the women who came to symbolize it. Flappers captures the full scope of the hedonistic subculture that made the Roaring Twenties roar, a group that reacted to Prohibition and other attempts to impose a stricter morality on the nation. Topics include the transition from silent films to talkies, the arrival of American Jazz as the country's first truly indigenous musical form, the evolution of the United States from a rural to an urban nation, the fashion and slang of the times, and more. It is an exhilarating portrait of a brief outburst of liberation that would last until the Great Depression came crashing down.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780313376900
eBook ISBN
9780313376917

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Timeline
  8. Chapter One: The Decade of the 1920s: The Flapper Era
  9. Chapter Two: The First Modern Liberated Woman: The Flapper
  10. Chapter Three: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald: The Flapper Era Personified
  11. Chapter Four: From Silent to Talkie: The World of Film
  12. Chapter Five: Prohibition in the Flapper Era
  13. Chapter Six: Legacy of the Era
  14. Biographical Sketches
  15. Glossary
  16. Primary Documents
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Index