Depression, War, and Recovery Unit 8A

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Depression, War, and RecoveryUnit 8A
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Remember people had a lot more money to spend
in the 1920s

• People wanted to have fun and were willing to
  spend money to have fun.
• There were 100 million moviegoers every week.
• People went to museums, public libraries,
  listening to the radio, talking on the phone,
  driving their cars, etc

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Radio and movies were the two biggest forms of
mass media in the 20s

• The first commercial radio broadcast was in 1920
  and played news, sports, music, comedy, and
  commercials.

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Movies

• In the 20s, most movies were still silent but
  there were starting to be some popular movie
  stars.
• The Jazz Singer had the first sound (1927).
• Steamboat Willie was the first animated movie
  (1928)

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Sports figures were some of the biggest heroes of
the 1920s

• The 1920s has been called
• the golden age of sports

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African Americans used the same forms of
entertainment to express themselves

• This time/place was called
• the Harlem Renaissance.
• New York City was the unofficial Black capital of
  America and Harlem was on NYCs West Side.
• Harlem was the largest black urban community in
  the world.
• Harlem (New York) was an African American
  cultural center for the arts everything from
  music to poetry.

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Jazz was bigin the 20s

• But even in many of the clubs where Blacks were
  entertainers, only white people were allowed to
  watch/listen.
• Two of the most popular musicians were Louis
  Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
• Harlems most famous nightclub
  The Cotton Club

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There was another side to the world at the time

• A group of people in despair (There had just been
  a war with millions of dead and just saw little
  hope for a better future)
• They were called the Lost Generation

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Many of these moved to Paris(and some wrote
about their view of the world)

• Ernest Hemming
• (A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea,
  For whom the Bell Tolls), who had been an
  ambulance driver in WWI.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• (The Great Gatsby) about New Yorkers whose
  lives spin out of control.
• Sinclair Lewis
• (Babbitt), made fun of middle class America
  and their materialism

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