The leisure industry, cinema, Jazz, dancing, sport, radio, advertising and motoring, morals and values and the ‘Monkey Trial’

The leisure industry, cinema, Jazz, dancing, sport, radio, advertising and motoring, morals and values and the ‘Monkey Trial’.

The leisure industry boomed in the 1920s, undergoing huge changes.

1. People simply had more money to spend on leisure during the 20s. Film became the standard form of entertainment across the country - making itself a multi-million dollar industry. Enormous movie theatres were built which could seat as many as 4,000 people. Movies were silent all the way up until the first "talking" picture was made in 1927. Hollywood was the major film-making centre.
2. Jazz music travelled across the US in the 1920s. The style originated from black people, who migrated from the South of the country to the North, spreading the music, as well as the dances (e.g. the Charleston) that came along with the genre - which many considered wild and untraditional. Jazz music began to sell in record form and was performed in clubs across the country, earning large amounts of money and symbolising a new era of freedom to many Americans.
3. Advertising became a huge industry, with billboards, newspapers and magazines spreading across the USA, with the advertisements urging people to spend their money on the newest products. Advertising was extremely successful as people were more willing to spend money at this time, and were more inclined to buy something more expensive due to hire purchase and good times for the economy. 
4. During the 1920s, six US states had banned the teaching of evolution in schools. One of these states was Tennessee, where biology teacher John Scopes taught his pupils the ideas behind evolution. Many Americans were very angry and launched an attack on Scopes and the ideas he taught - with books and publications about evolution eventually being banned in several states. The case went to court, ending up with Scopes being found guilty and fined $100, and with many people outside of the bible belt being shocked at the verdict and response.

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