1920s lecture 6 new culture
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Radio – most popular electronic device
American’s share entertainment, pastimes
Invented 1800’s
1900’s military
use
1910’s hobbyists
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1920 – hobbyist in Pittsburg started playing
records over the radio
Listening caught on
Westinghouse realized people would buy
radios if there were programs to listen to
Started first corporate radio station KDKA
Hundreds of radio stations were created
Technical improvements increased popularity
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Exploded in popularity during 1920’s
Short, silent films
1927 – The Jazz Singer
First movie with sound
“Talkies”
1927 Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie
Mickey Mouse became a star
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By end of 1920’s Americans bought over
100 million movie tickets a week
U.S. population = 123 million
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Movies led to movie stars – a new group of
American heroes
Charlie Chaplin – silent films
Rudolph Valentino – the hunk
Clara Bow – sex symbol
Mary Pickford – America’s sweetheart
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Charlie Chaplin Rudolph Valentino
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Mary Pickford Clara Bow
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Charles Lindbergh First person to
complete transatlantic flight
Flew single engine plane from NY to Paris non-stop Most people believed
you would need a large plane with many engines
Removed all the weight he could
Became a beloved hero
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Amelia Earhart
First woman to fly
across the Atlantic
1937 tried to fly
around the world
Disappeared over
Pacific Ocean
From Atchison, KS
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Red Grange
College Football
“The Galloping Ghost”
Helen Wills
Tennis
Won 31 majors
Bobby Jones
Won golf’s first Grand Slam
All in same calendar year
Babe Ruth
Baseball
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Modernism
THEMES:
Disillusionment
Disconnection
Loneliness
Emptiness
African American Literature
Tales of WWI
Women’s Literature
Literature about booming business
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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Sinclair Lewis
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Ernest Hemingway WWI
A Farewell to Arms
John Dos Passos Three Soldiers
T.S. Eliot The Wasteland
A lot of modernists part of the Lost Generation Large group of
American authors, poets, artists who lived in Europe after WWI
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Art Deco
movement in visual
arts, interior design
and architecture
Lavish, rich,
colorful
Shaped by “all the
nervous energy
stored up and
expended in the
War.”
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