Analysis: The Jazz Age Of Uncertainties
Johnny Mendez 9a2
Age of Uncertainty
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During the aftermath of WWI, the world was recovering from massive attacks and damages through out the war years. During this time things started changing for the better, advancements in certain fields such as technology and science, and for the worse, events and leaders (Hitler, Mussolini) leading to World War II. People were experiencing new ideas that revolutionaries such as Einstein's theories, Picasso's art and Gandhi's peace movements that were having, and proposing to the world. Ordinary people felt confused by these things, maybe even fearful and didn't know how to respond to these ideas and the changing …show more content…
" The Jazz Age in France" was a decade where many artists that weren't getting recognition for their work, came to France and exposed their talent to the western powers. Among the artists were Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, E.E Cummings and Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker was an African-American jazz performance artist who sang, danced and acted. The fact that she was African-American gave people a different perspective on her. During this era, racism was still very much alive, and was evident in the way people responded to Baker. In some places, Parisians wouldn't let her perform because of the color of her skin. This act of racism effected Baker and she vowed to never perform in a segregated debut. Josephine was in an all black artist group, and her dubious impressions of black culture were evident whenever she performed in front of a white-based …show more content…
They were beginning to accept African-American as performers of blues, and jazz, and Josephine Baker was just one of many black artists during this time. Baker refused to accept the reality that indeed racism is a virus that spreads around quickly among the world, and it is still an epidemic today! Because of her strong belief in ignoring the color of the skin, many artists were very much recognized, for example James Reese Europe. "I have come back from France more firmly convinced than ever that Negroes should write Negro music. We have our own racial feeling and if we try to copy whites we will make bad copies.... We won France by playing music which was ours and not a pale imitation of others, and if we are to develop in America we must develop along our own lines." - James Reese Europe, "A Negro Explains 'Jazz'." Literary Digest, 1919. So confident in his cultural music, James explains
Age of Uncertainty
Paper
During the aftermath of WWI, the world was recovering from massive attacks and damages through out the war years. During this time things started changing for the better, advancements in certain fields such as technology and science, and for the worse, events and leaders (Hitler, Mussolini) leading to World War II. People were experiencing new ideas that revolutionaries such as Einstein's theories, Picasso's art and Gandhi's peace movements that were having, and proposing to the world. Ordinary people felt confused by these things, maybe even fearful and didn't know how to respond to these ideas and the changing …show more content…
" The Jazz Age in France" was a decade where many artists that weren't getting recognition for their work, came to France and exposed their talent to the western powers. Among the artists were Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, E.E Cummings and Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker was an African-American jazz performance artist who sang, danced and acted. The fact that she was African-American gave people a different perspective on her. During this era, racism was still very much alive, and was evident in the way people responded to Baker. In some places, Parisians wouldn't let her perform because of the color of her skin. This act of racism effected Baker and she vowed to never perform in a segregated debut. Josephine was in an all black artist group, and her dubious impressions of black culture were evident whenever she performed in front of a white-based …show more content…
They were beginning to accept African-American as performers of blues, and jazz, and Josephine Baker was just one of many black artists during this time. Baker refused to accept the reality that indeed racism is a virus that spreads around quickly among the world, and it is still an epidemic today! Because of her strong belief in ignoring the color of the skin, many artists were very much recognized, for example James Reese Europe. "I have come back from France more firmly convinced than ever that Negroes should write Negro music. We have our own racial feeling and if we try to copy whites we will make bad copies.... We won France by playing music which was ours and not a pale imitation of others, and if we are to develop in America we must develop along our own lines." - James Reese Europe, "A Negro Explains 'Jazz'." Literary Digest, 1919. So confident in his cultural music, James explains