Flappers - A Guide to an American Subculture

Informationen zum Autor Kelly Boyer Sagert is a freelance writer who has published biographical material with Gale, Scribner, Oxford, and Harvard University, focusing on athletes and historical figures. She is the author of Joe Jackson: A Biography (Greenwood, 2004) and The 1970s (Greenwood, 2007). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kelly Sagert, Kelly Boyer Sagert, Sagert Kelly Boyer
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.12.2009
• EAN: 9780313376900
• ISBN: 978-0-313-37690-0
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures; Guides to Subcultures and Coun; Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / Social History