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Describe how artists and entertainers impacted upon American Culture 1920 to 1941.

Artists and entertainers built the foundations of America’s well-known culture. Jazz musicians and club singers encouraged a world of passion, rebellion and freedom and the big-screen stars changed the world of America’s young generation of the era. Jazz music encouraged awareness of Black Americans and on some level, placed whites and blacks on the same step of the ladder. Entertainers set the wheels in motion for changes in women’s right, changes in morality and acts of rebellion.

The Jazz singers of Chicago and New Orleans impacted on American Culture through their passion for the soulful melody of Jazz. Most Jazz singers were African American and although anti-black campaigns were at their height (a result of the growth of the terrifying racist terrorist organisation the Ku Klux Klan), white Americans’ found themselves being able to lose themselves in the music that was second-nature to their darker skinned fellow Americans.
With the white society’s growing fancy of ...

Posted by: Alexander Bartfield

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