Mass Media

schooling is expanded to educate the masses: 4 million students attend high school now, sparked by higher edu standards 4 jobs

-new coverage of events began to shape public opinion : Time , Readers Digest

-invention of radio became a powerful influence : Most powerful form of Communication , 40% of homes had a radio, 1st time they could hear the news as it was happening

-*During the 20s Development in EDU & mass media had a powerful impact on the nation

Cultural Arts

-George Gershwin

Traditional elements combined with Am/Jazz- America’s new music sound

“Rhapsody in Blue”

-Georgia O’Keefe: Artist, painted beautiful buildings of cities, the skylines

Literature

-many writers felt alienated by the 20’s

-Sinclair Lewis: 1st writer to win Nobel Prize in Literature “Babbit”

-F. Scott Fitzgerald : Coined the term Jazz Age, portrayed American’s Wealth

Literature

-Gertrude Stein

“Lost Generation” Writers that moved to Europe

-Ernest Hemingway

“For Whom the Bell Tolls”

“Farewell to Arms”

- Criticized the War

-T.S. Eliot

“Wasteland”

-Robert Frost

“Road not Taken”

Heroes

-increased leisure time allowed people to pursue pastimes

-Babe Ruth : record 60 homeruns, 1927

-Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney: heavy weight champions, 1927

-Red Grange Harold Edward "Red" Grange : Greatest FB Player ever by ESPN

-Notre Dame

-Bobby Jones famous golfer

Lucky Lindy

-trans-Atlantic flight

-Charles A. Lindbergh

1st nonstop SOLO Flight

33 hours

-Spirit of St. Louis

-American hero

-Amelia Earhart : 1st women to fly solo across the Atlantic in 15hrs

Hollywood 1922

Motion Pictures-Hollywood emerges as world famous center of US film Industry

-Charlie Chaplin: Most famous actor/producer, comic relief “Little Tramp”

-Clara Bow

“It Girl” #1 Flapper, #1 Silent film star

-Rudolph Valentino :”Latin Lover, famous actor

-talking films, 1927

“Jazz Singer” 1st movie w.sound

-Mickey Mouse, 1930 Steamboat Willie

Motion Pictures

-Hollywood emerges

-Charlie Chaplin

“Little Tramp”

-Clara Bow

“It Girl”

-Rudolph Valentino

-talking films, 1927

:”Jazz Singer”

-Mickey Mouse, 1930

Motion Pictures

-Hollywood emerges

-Charlie Chaplin

“Little Tramp”

-Clara Bow

“It Girl”

-Rudolph Valentino

-talking films, 1927

:”Jazz Singer”

-Mickey Mouse, 1930

African American Goals

-literary and artistic movement

-celebrated African American culture: “Black is Beautiful”

-Black Nationalism

-Marcus Garvey

-Back to Africa movement

-believed A could build a separate society, in Africa to help throw off white colonial oppressors

Harlem Renaissance NYC

-literary and artistic movement

-celebrated African American culture

-Langston Hughes :Best known poet, described difficulty of being B in a W world

-Claude McKay:poet

-Zora Neal Hurston: Novelist & poet, portrayed the lives of poor unschooled Southern Blacks

Black Artists

-Paul Robeson famous AA Actor

-Louis Armstrong: The most influential AM musician in AM JAZZ history, young trumpet player, HOT FIVE

-Duke Ellington : Famous for his 10 piece orchestra at the Cotton Club

-Bessie Smith : most famous blues singer & outstanding vocalist of the Decade.

Links to youtube.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zskO9O3hF78 (Chapmin)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfeKUNDDYs&feature=related (LA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCrtErmipXE (Bessie)\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6uzf_z_OXg (Steamboat willie)