mass media and the jazz age 13.2. mass media what is it? “the print and broadcast methods of...
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Mass Media and the Jazz Age13.2
Mass Media
• What is it?• “the print and
broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people”
• Leads to a national culture
Movies in the US• 123 million
people in the US• $100 million a
week watching movies!
• $850 million a year on radios
• Newsprint doubles from 1914-1927
• Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin
“The Jazz Singer”
Jazz Sweeps the Nation…• Comes from Blues in New Orleans• Arrives with black musicians in Northern Cities• 2/3 of radio time is devoted to Jazz
• Duke Ellington and Louis ArmstrongJazz band leader Jazz trumpet player
“The Lost Generation”• Intellectuals that felt disillusioned with American
society• Many moved to Europe (Paris)
• Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein
The Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem becomes the cultural center for Black America
• Jazz, Poetry, Literature, and Activism
Early leader of the NAACP
James Weldon Johnson
Langston Hughes
• Poet and Author• One of the most famous
and influential members of the Harlem Renaissance
• I, Too by Langston Hughes - Poetry Archive
• The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes - Poetry Archive