Mass Media and the Jazz Age 13.2

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Mass Media and the Jazz Age13.2
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Mass Media

• What is it?
• the print and broadcast methods of communicating
  information to large numbers of people
• Leads to a national culture

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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

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• Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin

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The Jazz Singer
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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

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• Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong

Jazz band leader
Jazz trumpet player
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The Lost Generation

• Intellectuals that felt disillusioned with
  American society
• Many moved to Europe (Paris)

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• Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein

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The Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem becomes the cultural center for Black
  America
• Jazz, Poetry, Literature, and Activism

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Early leader of the NAACP

• James Weldon Johnson

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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