Culture of the Roaring 1920's

3/24/2020

The Roaring 20’s - Western Cultural Changes
This blog space is for the discussion of culture and art in the West during the 1920's and early 1930's. What do you think Dali's paintings "mean?" You like? Dislike? How about the Jazz? If you would like to discuss anything regarding culture in this lesson, this is the spot.

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9 Comments

Alexandra Edmond-Perez

3/30/2020 05:07:05 pm

Jazz music always tells a story with each note and chord. With each note the music gets more colorful. Depending on what the composer wants the mood or tone of the music to be depends on if the music will be in a major scale or a minor scale. Their are many different types of scales, 12 to be exact. Each scale has a minor version to it and the minor scales always have a very menacing tone to them. If a sad or mean tone is wanted this is what is used along with m2,3,4,6,7. But when a happy tone is wanted then M1,2,3,4,5,6,7 are used. they all have more happy tones and if played at a higher beats per minute then it would be more happy and up beat.

Sherer

3/31/2020 07:12:12 am

Thanks for the music contribution. Do you have some Jazz favorites or prefered subgenres within Jazz? I love a Hardbop because of its blues undertones but I can also dig some Miles Davis Cool Jazz too. More in line with this time frame, Louis Armstrong's take on the standard "Stardust." Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIE6U6Lrtrc

Alexandra Edmond-Perez

3/31/2020 12:55:55 pm

Some songs that I listen to/ play are Abracadabra by Larry Barton, Turn the Beat Around by Peter Jackson JR and Gerald Jackson, and Rockman by Jay Chattaway. All of these songs are songs that will get stuck in your head. If I ever walk into your class humming a some its normally one of these songs. These are some of the Jazz songs our band director at Bonanza has the jazz band playing. We also were working on a Frank Sinatra song called Fly Me to the Moon. The music all has its own story as its played. Each melody and counter melody shows the struggle of the composer.

Sherer

3/31/2020 02:05:26 pm

Sounds very interesting, I will check them out., Thanks.

Dillen Holbo

4/1/2020 11:08:30 am

Although I have honestly no clue as to the meaning of many of Dali’s paintings, I do really enjoy his portraits and figures that you put in the 1920’s slideshow. I found it very attracting how although he uses abstract shapes and dimensions, whether they be cylindrical looking shapes or spheres in varying sizes and colors, they still make a very clear and enticing image. I guess some people would specifically call the portrait made of spheres “trippy”. I found myself looking at it for a while, trying to find any hidden details I have missed. Maybe this portrait was trying to describe the complexity of humans? Another painting that caught my eye was one that had a man pointing to a large oval-ish object with a body that looks like its struggling to come out of it. I think maybe it was inspired in some way by the “Birth Of Venus” painting because the general composition of Dali’s painting reminded me of the Birth of Venus. There is a cloth under the shape in Dali’s painting that also looks like the shell that Venus is standing in in the “Birth of Venus” painting. I may be completely wrong however because I do also see the continents of South America and Africa on the oval shape in Dali’s painting.

Sherer

4/1/2020 11:13:32 am

Cool thing here is that many of the painting were made for your subconsciousness, and not your eyes. So, we see the face of a woman because WE HAVE seen faces of women, not because there is really a face there. If an alien, that had never seen a woman's face before, was shown this painting, would the alien see the woman's face? WHOA!!!

Karem Sherlyn Alondra Perez Ortiz

4/25/2020 02:56:38 am

Oh wow, ¨Birth of Venus¨? I have never heard of that. Just researched. To me it looked like an egg, and that reminded me of like the bag (amniotic bag) we are born from, and it seemed accurate since the person was struggling. What do you think the color of skin means? Does it have any relevancy? I never noticed that, the continents.

Karem Sherlyn Alondra Perez Ortiz

4/25/2020 02:49:11 am

Well, what intrigue me was the painting of a woman looking out a balcony, she looked naked. But I can´t figure out the meaning. None of them actually. Do those paintings have names, so that we can research the meaning maybe?

Sherer

4/28/2020 07:21:40 am

The vast majority are paintings by the famous Salvador Dali. There are numerous online galleries dedicated to his and other surrealistic artists.

Culture of the Roaring 1920's

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