Flappers - A Guide to an American Subculture (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Greenwood Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Guides to Subcultures and Countercultures
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	December 2009
Authors:	Kelly Boyer Sagert
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	164
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-37690-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Promotions
LSN:	0-313-37690-5
Barcode:	9780313376900

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