music and style in
1920´s
music
in this ages the music change Prior to the creation of the recorded music industry, popular
music was shared through sheet music, piano rolls, and live shows.The second influential
technology that helped to create the modern music industry was commercial radio. modern
music industry began in the 1920´s with all of these new technologies that were created and
used to make and distribute music.The music world was wide open making way for the
popularization of genres like Jazz, Blues, Broadway and Dance Bands.
Prohibition of alcohol began in 1920, this lead to an underground market for much sought
after drinks and the creation of places like speakeasies. Speakeasies started out small, but
as the Roaring Twenties came into its prime, speakeasies followed and expanded into
clubs that featured musicians and dancers.
style
1920's Fashion for women characterized the free spirited, modernist era of the Roaring
Twenties and the Jazz Age as women gained their freedom and independence. The 1920's
Fashion trends were the shorter, low-waisted dresses and revealing styles worn by the
Flappers, the 'bobbed' hairstyles, cloche hats, the casual, haphazard fashion of a mixture of
brightly colored clothes, scarves and stockings with bold, striking Art Deco geometric
designs of the era. Another 1920's fashion trend were clothes that provided freedom of
movement with looser fitting clothes and defined by the adoption of the chemise or
camisole, the a loose-fitting undergarment which replaced the confining, tight fitting corsets
of the Victorian era.
Fashion for Men wore well-tailored pinstriped suits, tuxedos, silk shirts and handkerchiefs,
raccoon fur coats, fedora hats, suspenders, bow ties, black patent leather shoes and spats.
The fashion and clothing for men also included short suit jackets, cuffed trousers,
waistcoats and wide-leg "Oxford Bags". Sports and leisure influenced attire like jumpers,
jodhpurs and knickerbockers. The famous 'Zoot Suit' was also a strong fashion statement
for men during the Harlem Renaissance. During the 1920's men abandoned formal day
clothes and began to wear sports clothing for the first time.
