The disenchanted

Many artist and interectulls coming to the new age in the 1920s were experiencing a fundamental disenchantment with modern America. The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald , for example attacked the American obsession with material success "the great gatsby". It also included a remarkable group of black artist. In New York City a new generation of African American intellectuals created a flourishing artistic life described as the "Harlem Renaissance". The modern secular culture of the 1920s did not go unchallenged. It grew up alongside an older more traditional culture with which it continually and often bitterly competed.