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Title: Mass MediaJazz Age
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Mass Media/Jazz Age
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Mass Media
- From Hollywood
- US used to be collection of regional cultures
- Films, news, radio create a national culture
- Customs (flappers) become common from media
- Mass Media print, film, and broadcast methods of
communicating information to large numbers of
people
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Movies
- Theatres 1910 (5,000) to 1930 (22,500)
- The Jazz Singer first sound film
- talkies
- Some silent film actors succeed from this
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Newspapers/Magazines
- Use of newsprint doubles between 1914 and 1927
- Many newspapers publish tabloids to attract
readers (large headlines, few words, and many
pictures to tell a story) - Tabloids focus on entertainment, not serious news
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Newspapers/Magazines
- 200 million copies of magazines by 1929
- Advertisers use them for ads
- Americans begin to share the same information,
events, ideas, fashion - Creates popular culture
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Radio
- Becomes a way for advertisers
- 1922- 500 stations
- Networks linked stations together to reach more
people
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Jazz Age
- Improvisation make up music rather than relying
on printed scores - Created by A.A. music in South (ragtime/blues)
- Criticized for being reminiscent of free manners
and moral - 1920s considered the Jazz Age
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Jazz Clubs/Dance Halls
- Harlem was popular for jazz
- Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
- Charleston
- Becomes a national fad
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Lost Generation
- Rejected quest for material possessions
- Against pop culture
- Left the US for Europe (found it more
intellectually stimulating) - expatriates live outside homeland
- Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- People disconnected from their country and values
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Harlem Renaissance
- rebirth
- A.A. literary awakening
- James Weldon Johnson
- Langston Hughes (most studied)
- Wrote and talked about black culture and life
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