The Birth of Mass CultureBy: Rachel Cyr, Morgan Derby, Kaylee DeSimone, Claire Dolan, and Brendan Richardson

Promotes the role of individuals as being consumers

Promotes the role of individuals as being consumers

The mass media, movies, and spectator sports played importa...

The mass media, movies, and spectator sports played important roles in creating the popular culture of the 1920’s. A culture that many artists and writers were criticized

Mass culture increased the amount to kids who enrolled ...

Mass culture increased the amount to kids who enrolled in high school.

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Major advancements in transportation, communication and manufacturing

Major advancements in transportation, communicati...

Machines took people’s jobs → out of work

Machines took people’s jobs → out of work

Assembly lines made manufacturing faster and lowered the need to manual labor

Assembly lines made manufacturing faster and lower...

Labor laws regulated the amount of time people were allowed to work

Labor laws regulated the amount of time people we...

Playing Games

• People would play mahjong and cards

Playing Games

People would play mahjong and cards

Shopping

• When the Pharaoh Tutankhamun died people went out and bought pharaoh inspired items

Shopping

Flagpole sitting

• People would put chairs and other objects to get attention

Flagpole sitting

Dance marathons

Sports games

Radio and Cinemas

• Radio (“Talkies”) and Movies were very popular in the 20s.
• Big companies (MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros.) advertised movies to make them appeal to the public.
• Cinemas were luxurious and easily accessible due to cars, people were willing to spend money there.

Movie Stars

Movie Stars

-Impacted society

-Rudolph Valentino (the Justin Bieber of the 20s)

-Rich&famous, died suddenly, caused many female fans to commit suicide

-Clara Bow

-”It girl”, played a flapper, many girls copied her style to be like her

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth

• Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936
• Set many records, some that have still have not been surpassed

Andrew “Rube” Foster

• He was called the “Father of black baseball”
• Set in motion to create the Negro National League (NNL)

Jim Thorpe

• Played football, track and field, and baseball
• Won gold medals in decathlon and pentathlon

The Washing

• The innovation of the washing machine in the 1920s, the washing machines became more advanced and common in an average house. This made life easier for the women and children as it washed the clothes for them instead of them having to hand wash the clothes.

The Vacuum

The innovation of the vacuum in the mid-1920s, the vacuum cleaner became more efficient and more successful in an average house. For instance, in 1920 Air-way Sanitizor of Toledo, Ohio introduced the first vacuum cleaner with a disposable bag.

The Radio

- Radio broadcasting began in 1920 with the historic broadcast of KDKA. Though few people actually heard the voices and music which were produced because of the poor signal of radio receivers at that time.

Frozen food

- Many people developed innovative food-freezing techniques. The main peole behing these techniques were, Enoch Piper, William Davis, and Daniel E. Somes. However, Clarence Birdseye is credited with inventing the quick freezing method in 1924, which produces the type of frozen foods that we know today.

The refrigerator

- The history of the Refrigerator began in the 1920. In the 1920s and '30s, consumers were first introduced to freezers later on electric refrigerators with ice cube compartments came on the market. These basic freezers were now be purchased for about half their origional selling prices in the 1920s.