Mass Media

-schooling is expanded to educate the masses

-new coverage of events began to shape public opinion

-invention of radio became a powerful influence

Cultural Arts

-George Gershwin

“Rhapsody in Blue”

-Georgia O’Keefe

Literature

-many writers felt alienated by the 20’s

-Sinclair Lewis

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

Literature

-Gertrude Stein

“Lost Generation”

-Ernest Hemingway

“For Whom the Bell Tolls”

“Farewell to Arms”

-T.S. Eliot

“Wasteland”

-Robert Frost

“Road not Taken”

Heroes

-increased leisure time allowed people to pursue pastimes

-Babe Ruth

-Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney

-Red Grange

-Notre Dame

-Bobby Jones

Lucky Lindy

-trans-Atlantic flight

-Charles A. Lindbergh

-Spirit of St. Louis

-American hero

-Amelia Earhart

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

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 Nationalism

-Marcus Garvey

-Back to Africa movement

Harlem Renaissance

-literary and artistic movement

-celebrated African American culture

-Langston Hughes

-Claude McKay

-Zora Neal Hurston

Black Artists

-Paul Robeson

-Louis Armstrong

-Duke Ellington

-Bessie Smith