"Jazz disorganizes all regular laws and beat; it stimulates to extreme deeds, to a total lack of control and reserve... That jazz has a demoralizing effect upon the human brain has been demonstrated by many scientists... With the widespread distribution of the player-piano and the phonograph, this popular music has been brought into millions of homes where it was previously unknown."
— Anne Shaw Faulkner, "Does Jazz Put the Sin in Syncopation?", *The Ladies' Home Journal*, 1921
The concerns expressed in the excerpt best reflect which of the following broader cultural conflicts in United States society during the 1920s?
- The tension between modernist cultural trends and traditional social valuesCevap
- BThe struggle between advocates of isolationism and supporters of internationalism in foreign policy
- CThe political clash between the working class and corporate leaders over the regulation of the economy
- DThe debate over whether the federal government should guarantee civil rights to minority communities
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The tension between modernist cultural trends and traditional social values
The correct answer is correct because the source illustrates the traditionalist backlash against new, modernist cultural expressions (such as jazz) that were rapidly spreading throughout American homes due to new consumer technologies (like the phonograph and player-piano). This captures the central cultural tension of the 1920s between modernism and traditionalism.
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The 1920s witnessed significant cultural and technological innovations, including the rise of mass media like the phonograph, which helped create a national consumer culture but also provoked a traditionalist backlash against new social norms and modernist expressions.