Cultural Innovations

1
Cultural Innovations

• The 1920s produced a cultural interest in Art
  and literature, sports, and Motion pictures

2
Modern Art, Literature, Feats

• Charles Lindbergh- first solo nonstop flight
  across the Atlantic Ocean
• Spirit of St. Louis
• New York Paris
• Carl Sandberg- Chicago poet who used common
  speech to glorify American life
• Praise equality and a life intensely lived

3
Popular Culture

• Ernest Hemingway- wrote about restoring myths of
  American heroes
• Fought in WWI created novels of antiheroes
  flawed characters with good intentions
• A farewell to Arms

4
Prosperity brings Sports

• Prosperity during the 20s provides leisure time
  and money
• Baseball and Boxing
• Babe Ruth- national hero made famous for hitting
  home runs
• College football, swimming, and Golf became
  American past-times

5
The Rise of Hollywood

• Motion Pictures
• Technology had not created sound yet, so piano
  players entertained the films
• 1927- first talking picture was showed
• The Jazz Singer began the Golden Age of Hollywood