Recreation
Recreation in the 1920s involved a great deal of going out to clubs, flowing with jazz music and possibly illegal booze. NIghtclubs allowed for white patrons to enjoy the "primitive" allure of black jazz, such as the Cotton Club, an exclusively white establishment in Harlem itself. Many great black musicians, such as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Ethel Waters were shown at the club, giving them the privileged audience of whites to spread their greatness outside of the Harlem Renaissance. Fashionable whites, flappers in particular, were dawn to the clubs by the new and risque dances of jazz, and the deviation from old standards, sometimes, although more rarely due to police raids, drawn to mixed clubs, "blacks and tans". Movies, created mostly in Hollywood gave the 1920s a mode of cheap and easy visual entertainment, to go along with the clubs and bars and they too. Although white dominated, they helped introduce a more liberal social culture, helping make the "Negro Voyeur" of jazz and literature a less radical introduction. The radio too became widely available in the 1920s, allowing families to learn of developments from afar in the comfort of their own homes. -BH