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Why were both the Jazz Age and the film industry boom largely dominated by American migrants and immigrants?
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Why were both the Jazz Age and the film industry boom largely dominated by American migrants and immigrants? The jazz age and the film industry were mainly dominated by immigrants and migrants due to the resurgence in fundamentalism, which meant following the Bible word for word and taking its meaning into everyday life these fundamentalists, found mainly in the Bible belt states looked upon jazz as a very good influence as it did not fit in the Bible and its teachings. Also it was seen to be crude and have sexual connotations which were the complete opposite from what these fundamentalists saw as decent behaviour. There was also the Ku Klux Klan, who began in the 19th century and was for white supremacy, mainly terrorising the blacks. There was resurgence in the 1920's due to the increase in immigrants-Catholics, Jews and Italians. They had a problem with jazz or the cinema...
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