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Gladys Alberta Bentley (August 12, 1907 – January 18, 1960) [1] was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance.. Her career skyrocketed when she appeared at Harry Hansberry's Clam House, [2] a well-known gay speakeasy in New York City in the 1920s, as a black, lesbian, cross-dressing performer.
Fass, Paula S. (2007) The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-502492-0; Gourley, Kathleen (2007) Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s (Images and or of Women in the Twentieth Century). ISBN 978-0-8225-6060-9
With women's suffrage—the right for women to vote—at its peak with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on August 18, 1920, and the entrance of the free-spirited flapper, women began to take on a larger role in society and culture. With women now taking part in the work force after the end of the First World War there were now many ...
Scott DeVeaux argues that a standard history of jazz has emerged such that: "After an obligatory nod to African origins and ragtime antecedents, the music is shown to move through a succession of styles or periods: New Orleans jazz up through the 1920s, swing in the 1930s, bebop in the 1940s, cool jazz and hard bop in the 1950s, free jazz and ...
A defining aspect of theatre of the 1920s was the development of jazz. [1] Jazz was credited with being the "first distinctively American art form to disseminate US culture, style, and modernity across the globe". [1] Jazz's spread across the globe also applied to American lives and art forms.
Local Developer Brendon Meier is the owner of Hush on Main which is a 1920s speakeasy-themed bar in the basement unit of the Marlocon Building. ... in the 1930s, speakeasies had a revamp in the ...
USA TRAVEL: It’s 90 years since the end of Prohibition, and although speakeasies still attract visitors to New York, there’s a new drinking trend that’s pulling in the locals. Rachel Ifans ...
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...
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