Red Space Rocket

Prohibition of alcohol
The Volstead Act. 1919. National Prohibition Act.
This banned the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors” in the United States.
32,000 speakeasies in New York in the 1920s.
Drinking cocktails popular in upper classes.
Prohibition repealed in December 1933.

Increase in organised Crime
Bootlegging
Gangs
Al Capone
Famous gangster
Known as “Scarface”.
Convicted 1931 of tax eviction.

Jazz

Americans bought more than 100 millions record in 1927.
More than 100 “territory” bands toured the country playing at dances.
The Deluxe Melody Boys
Jesse Stone’s Blue Serenaders
Walter Page and his Blue Devils.
Andy Kirk’s Clouds of Joy

In small town America jazz was an annoyance and made morals loose.
Professor Henry Van Dyck of Princeton University.
“it is not music at all. It is merely an irritation of the nerves of hearing”
“”jazz” is an unmitigated cacophony, a combination of disagreeable sounds in complicated discords, a wilful ugliness and a deliberate vulgarity.”