chapter 11 section 4 a new mass culture. the automobile reshaped american culture, creating new...
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CHAPTER 11 SECTION 4
A NEW MASS CULTURE
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• THE AUTOMOBILE RESHAPED AMERICAN CULTURE, CREATING NEW FORMS OF RECREATION AND MAKING IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO TRAVEL
• AMERICANS ALSO LISTENED TO THE RADIO, WENT TO MOVIES, AND FOLLOWED SPORTS
• A NEW MASS CULTURE EMERGED RESEMBLING THE ONE WE HAVE NOW
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Popular Culture• ON FARMS PEOPLE WORKED FROM DAYLIGHT TO DARK LEAVING LITTLE TIME FOR ENTERTAINEMENT – FAMILIES SPENT A LOT OF TIME TOGETHER – DID NOT HAVE THE TIME OR MONEY FOR ENTERTAINMENT• CITY LIFE WAS DIFFERENT – AVERAGE WORKWEEK WAS 45 HOURS BY 1930 – ALSO WORKWEEK WAS CHANGED FROM SEVEN TO 5 DAYS – SALARIES WERE ALSO BIGGER
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Movies• WITH MORE FREE TIME AND EXTRA MONEY URBAN AND SUBURBAN AMERICANS LOOKED TO NEW SOURCES OF ENTERTAINMENT – MOVIES WERE THE NEW ENTERTAINMENT
• MOVIES BECAME BIG IN THE 1920S – STUDIOS IN HOLLYWOOD ESTABLISHED MONOPOLIES THAT CONTROLLED THE PRODUCTIN, DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION OF MOVIES
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Movies • 1920’S – FROM 60 TO 100 MILLION AMERICANS WENT TO THE MOVIES EACH WEEK
• STUDIOS MADE SILENT PICTURES – IDEAL FOR THE TIME BECAUSE MANY IMMIGRANTS COULD NOT SPEAK ENGLISH – ALSO LET THEM SERVE MANY GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDRIES – MANY STARS BECAME FAMOUS IN OTHER COUNTRIES
• EASILY AVAILABLE TO ANYONE – ONLY COST A FEW CENTS TO GET INTO THE MOVIES
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Famous Stars of the 1920’s (pg.344)
1. CHARLIE CHAPLIN – MOST FAMOUS – MOST POPULAR CHARACTER WAS THE LITTLE TRAMP – PART HOBO AND OPTOMIST
2. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS – ORIGINAL ROBIN HOOD
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Famous Stars of the 1920’s
3. MARY PICKFORD – MARRIED TO DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS – ALSO KNOWN AS
“AMERICA’S SWEETHEART”
4. LON CHANEY – STAR OF HORROR FILMS
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Famous Stars of the 1920’s
5. RUDOLPH VALENTINO – SEX SYMBOL – MOST FAMOUS ROLE WAS IN THE SHEIK – “THE LATIN LOVER”
6. CECIL B. DEMILLE – MOST FAMOUS MOVIE PRODUCER OF THE 1920’S
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Famous Stars of the 1920’s
7. FATTY ARBUCKLE – FAMOUS COMEDIAN WHOSE CAREER WAS RUINED BY SCANDAL
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Movies
• MOVIES CHANGED IN 1927 WITH THE RELEASE OF THE JAZZ SINGER – FIRST TALKING PICTURE STARRING AL JOLSON – FIRST WORDS SPOKEN ON FILM: “YOU AIN’T HEARD NOTHIN’ YET”
• SILENT PICTURES FADED WITH THE “TALKIES”
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Radio & Phonographs• POWERFUL INSTRUMENTS OF MASS POPULAR CULTURE
• HELPED PRODUCE A STANDARDIZED CULTURE – AMERICANS IN THE EAST AND WEST AND NORTH AND SOUTH LISTENED TO THE SAME SONGS, LEARNED THE SAME DANCES AND SHARED THE SAME POPULAR CULTURE AS NEVER BEFORE
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Radio & Phonograph• THE RADIO WAS DEVELOPED IN THE 1890’S BY ITALIAN INVENTOR GUGLIELMO MARCONI
• 1920 – AN EXECUTIVE OF THE WESTINGHOUSE COMPANY STARTED RADIO STATION KDKA IN PITTSBURGH – IMMEDIATE SUCCESS – WITHIN THREE YEARS THERE WERE ALMOST 600 STATIONS BROADCASTING DIFFERENT PROGRAMS – ALSO LET LISTENERS HEAR ABOUT DIFFERENT PRODUCTS THROUGH ADVERTISING
• 1927, MUCH OF AMERICA LISTENED TO A CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING MATCH BETWEEN GENE TUNNEY AND JACK DEMPSEY - BEFORE 1920s, SUCH COVERAGE OF AN EVENT HAD BEEN IMPOSSIBLE
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Radio & Phonograph
• PHONOGRAPH ALLOWED PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO THE SAME MUSIC THEY HEARD ON THE RADIO WHEN EVER THEY WANTED - EARLY PHONOGRAPH EMPLOYED DIFFICULT TO USE WAX CYLINDERS; HAD POOR SOUND QUALITY - 1920s, GROOVED DISC RECORDINGS AND SUPERIOR SOUND REPRODUCTION – LISTENED TO THE SAME MUSIC EVERYWHERE IN THE U.S. - LEARNED SAME FASHIONABLE DANCES; THE FOX TROT TO THE CHARLESTON
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Heroes of the 1920s• HOLLYWOOD’S RIVALS FOR HEROES WERE SPORTS STARS – BEFORE 1920’S SPORTS STARS WERE LOCAL HEROES – CHANGED IN 1920’S – CALLED THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPORTS
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Heroes of the 1920s• LEADING SPORTS HERO WAS BABE RUTH – THE “SULTAN OF SWAT”
• ATHLETES WERE POPULAR BECAUSE: 1. THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPORTS WAS ALSO THE GOLDEN AGE OF SPORTS WRITERS 2. WWI SHATTERED AMERICAN’S FAITH IN PROGRESS MAKING THE WORLD CHEAP AND FLAWED – ATHLETIC HEROES REASSURED AMERICANS THAT PEOPLE WERE CAPABLE OF GREAT FEATS 3. SPORTS HEROES GAVE AMERICANS A SENSE OF HOPE
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Heroes of the 1920sJohn L.
Sullivan-BOXER Jim Thorpe
All-around athlete
Red GrangeFOOTBALL
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Heroes of the 1920sBobby JonesGOLFBill Tilden
TENNISGertrud e EderleFIRST WOMAN TO SWIMTHE ENGLISH CHANNEL
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LUCKY LINDY CROSSES THE ATLANTICCharles Lindbergh
• THE MOST POPULAR CELEBRITY OF THE 1920S – FIRST PERSON TO FLY NONSTOP AND SOLO ACROSS THE ATLANTIC FROM NEW YORK TO PARIS IN THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
• WHEN HE LANDED IN PARIS HE BECAME AN INSTANT CELEBRITY – BECAME THE GREATEST HERO OF HIS TIME
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New Roles For Women• 1920’S – MANY WOMEN CHALLENGED POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL BOUNDARIES TO PROVE THAT THEIR ROLE WAS AS VITAL OUTSIDE THE HOME AS INSIDE
• THE “NEW WOMAN” OF THE 1920’S WAS MORE LIBERATED - SHE WORE DRESSES THAT WERE SHORTER, PUT ON MORE MAKEUP AND DANCED TO THE LATES CRAZES AND ASSUMED SHE HAD THE SAME POLITICAL AND SOCIAL RIGHTS AS ANY MAN
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New Role For Women• THE REJECTION OF “VICTORIAN” MORALITY SEEMED SO TOTAL AND THE NEW WOMAN SO NOVEL THAT THE CHANGE AMOUNTED TO A “REVOLUTION IN MANNERS AND MORALITY
• THE SYMBOL OF ALL THESE CHANGES WAS THE FLAPPER – A YOUNG WOMAN WITH SHORT SKIRTS AND RED CHEEKS WHO HAD HER HAIR CUT IN A BOB
• THE FLAPPER WAS MORE PUBLICIZED THAN IMITATED – HER IMAGE UNDERSCORES AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE 1920S – NOT ALL WOMEN WANTED TO BE FLAPPERS BUT WANTED MORE CONTROL OVER THEIR LIVES
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Changes in Family Life• DURING THE 1920S WOMEN TENDED TO LIVE LONGER, MARRY LATER AND HAVE FEWER CHILDREN – FREED THEIR TIME TO PURSUE OTHER INTEREST – WORKING, CHARITY WORK, CLUBS THAT DISCUSSED BOOKS AND IDEALS – ENLARGED THE INTELLECTUAL WORLD OF WOMEN
• CONSUMER ECONOMY BENEFITED WOMEN – ELECTRIC APPLIANCES HELPED MAKE HOUSEWORK EASIER
• RURAL AMERICA – DID NOT HAVE ELECTRICITY – THEIR HOUSEHOLD CHORES WERE STILL DIFFICULT
• STILL A SPLIT BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL AMERICANS
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Modernism in Arts and LiteratureNO AREA OF AMERICAN LIVE REFLECTED THE IMPACT OF WWI MORE THAN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS – THE WAR ALTERED THE WAY WRITERS AND ARTISTS:1. VIEWED THE WORLD2. CHANGED THE WAY THEY APPROACHED THEIR CRAFT3. INSPIRED THEM TO EXPERIMENT WITH NEW FORMS AND FRESH IDEAS
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Modernism in Art and Literature• WWI CALLED THE NOTION OF PROGRESS INTO QUESTION – HOW COULD A SOCIETY RULED BY THE IDEA OF PROGRESS PARTICIPATE IN A WAR THAT KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, DESTROYED MONUMENTS OF CIVILIZATION AND LEFT SURVIVORS HUNGRY AND HOMELESS
• BELIEVED THIS WAS NOT AN ACTION OF RATIONAL PEOPLE BUT THE IRRATIONAL EXPLOITS OF CIVILIZATION WITHOUT DIRECTION
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Modernism in the Arts and Literature
THIS PESSIMISTIC WORLDVIEW SPARKED AN ARTISTIC MOVEMENT KNOWN AS MODERNISM
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Sigmund Freud
• CONTRIBUTED TO LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MODERNISM – ARGUED THAT MUCH OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR IS DRIVEN NOT BY RATIONAL THOUGHT BUT UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES
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Sigmund Freud• TO LIVE IN SOCIETY PEOPLE LEARN TO SUPPRESS UNCONSCIOUS DESIRES – BUT THE TENSION BETWEEN OUTWARD BEHAVIOR AND THE SUBCONSCIOUS COULD LEAD TO MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ILLNESS
• FREUD’S THEORIES LED WRITERS AND ARTISTS TO EXPLORE THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
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Modern Painting• MODERNISM CLASHED WITH TRADITIONALISM MOST DRAMATICALLY IN THE FIELD OF MODERN ART
• EUROPEAN PAINTERS MOVED AWAY FROM REPRESENTATIONAL PAINTINGS THAT SIMPLY REPRODUCED REAL LIFE AND EXPERIMENTED WITH MORE ABSTRACT STYLES
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Modern Painting• MOST AMERICANS GOT THEIR FIRST REAL GLIMPSE OF THE NEW EUROPEAN APPROACH AT THE ARMORY SHOW IN NEW YORK 1913 – TRADITIONALISTS WERE OUTRAGED – “LUNITIC FRINGE” – AMERICAN PAINTERS WERE INSPIRED BY THE ART
• AMERICAN ARTISTS: 1. EDWARD HOPPER – AUTOMAT, NIGHHAWKS 2. OSEPH STELLA – BROOKLYN BRIDGE
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Literature
AMERICAN WRITERS OF THE 1920S WERE REFERRED TO AS THE LOST GENERATION – GIVEN THE NAME BY GERTRUDE STEIN – BECAUSE THEY NO LONGER HAD FAITH IN THE CULTURAL GUIDEPOSTS OF THE VICTORIAN ERA – WERE INSPIRED BY THEIR “LOST” CONDITION TO SEARCH FOR NEW TRUTHS AND FRESH WAYS OF EXPRESSING THOSE TRUTHS
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Literature
1920S – NEVER IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAD A DECADE SEEN THE EMERGENCE OF SO MANY GREAT LITERARY TALENTS: 1. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD – EXPLORED THE REALITY OF AMERICAN DREAMS OR WEALTH, SUCCESS AND EMOTIONAL FULFILLMENT – WROTE THE GREAT GATSBY – WHICH SHOWS THE EMPTINESS OF THE JAZZ AGE WORLD OF FLAPPERS AND BOOTLEGGERS – ALSO WROTE THIS SIDE OF PARADISE IN WHICH HE SAYS HIS GENERATION HAD “GROWN UP TO FIND ALL GODS DEAD, ALL WARS FOUGHT AND ALL FAITHS IN MAN SHAKEN”
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Literature
2. ERNEST HEMINGWAY – WROTE A FAREWELL TO ARMS – ABOUT A DOOMED LOVE AFFAIR BETWEEN A CYNICAL AMERICAN AMBULANCE DRIVER AND A NURSE DURING WWI
3. SINCLAIR LEWIS – WROTE MAIN STREET – SMALL TOWN LIFE IN THE MIDWEST – PAINTS A SATIRICAL PORTRAIT OF SMALL MINDED PEOPLE IN AN AMERICAN TOWN
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Literature4. EDITH WHARTON – WROTE THE AGE OF INNOCENCE – ABOUT A WEALTHY YOUNG MAN PREVENTED BY SOCIAL CONVENTIONS FROM MARRYING THE WOMAN HE LOVES5. WILLIAM FAULKNER – WROTE THE SOUND AND THE FURY – ABOUT LIFE IN THE SOUTH AND USES DIFFERENT NARRATORS TO TELL THE STORY OF THE COMPLEX INNER WORKINGS OF A SOUTHERN FAMILY
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Literature• MANY POETS AND NOVELISTS OF THE 1920S WERE DISSILLUSIONED – THEY WRESTLED WITH THE MEANING OF THE WAR AND LIFE ITSELF – THEIR EFFORTS RESULTED IN THE CREATION OF LITERARY MASTERPIECES