what was good about the roaring twenties
The roaring twenties ushered in a rich period of American writing, distinguished by the works of such authors as Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carl Sandburg and Ernest Hemingway. A uniquely American music form, whose roots lay in African expression, came to be known as jazz.
Entertainment If the term 'roaring twenties' applies to anything, it applies to entertainment, in which area there were many exciting developments: a. Films: â movie actors such as Charlie Chaplin, Rudolf Valentino and Mary Pickford became 'stars'. â in 1927,The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, was the first 'talkie'.