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The Roar Of Pop Culture

By: Jordan Kroge & Isaac Lozano

School Enrollments

Schools & Mass Media Shape

  • Student attendance increased a lot due to higher educational standards for industrial jobs
  • Taxes to finance schools increased, by the mid-1920's taxes amounted to $2.7 billion per year
  • This caused the nations economy to double and sweep Americans into a "consumer society"

Expanding News Coverage

TIMELINE

1920s

1914 - 600 local papers shut down and 230 taken over by national chains. Allowed more expansive coverage

1920 - Mass-circulation magazines were everywhere

1920 - By the end of the 1920s 10 American magazines had a circulation of 2 million each

News Coverage

Writers and editors learned how to engage readers by imitating sensational stories. Mass circulation magazines and more expansive coverage flourished. This played a big role in shaping a mass culture

The Radio

-Most powerful communication medium.

-Created shared national experience of hearing news live.

-The wider world tuned into Americans and allowed them to listen to their president or the World Series

Radio

CHARTS

PICTURES

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Golden Age

Sports Heroes

  • The Golden Age of Sports reflected common aspirations
  • As athletes set new records and poor men rose to fame and fortune, American's belief in power of themselves for improvement was restored

Gertude Ederle

  • 1926 - when she was 19 she became the firs woman to swim the English Channel
  • The "Queen of Waves" became a sports star and inspired others to swim and give women their best shot at fame

Babe Ruth

  • New York Yankees slugger, hit home runs back to back
  • 1927 - hit a record of 60 home runs, causing American to go wild
  • Babe Ruth casts a big shadow over other baseball stars and influenced men to try to live up to his fame

Helen Wills

  • Queen of women's tennis, won the singles title at the U.S. 7 times and the Wimbledon title 8 times
  • Nickname was "Little Miss Poker Face"
  • Sparked rivalry with Helen Hull Jacobs
  • Caused people to become more engaged in tennis and people wanted to try to be as good as Helen

Andrew "Rube" Foster

Andrew Foster

  • 1920 - made his greatest contribution to black baseball and founded the Negro National League
  • Although many have failed before him, he led the league to success and earned the title "The Father of Black Baseball"

1919-1932

Historic Flights

  • 1920 - First transcontinental airmail service in U.S.
  • March 1927 - Pan American Airways founded to handle airmail
  • May 1927 - Charles Lindbergh established record of 33 h 29 m and 3,614 mi on his solo flights across the Atlantic
  • May 1932 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic

Lindbergh's Flight

Lindbergh

  • Charles A. Lindbergh made first solo flight across Atlantic
  • Lindbergh stood for honesty and bravery in the age of excess and crime
  • Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald caught the essence of Lindbergh's fame
  • Lindbergh's accomplishment inspired many others to take flight, including Amelia Earhart

Entertainment & Arts

Entertainment, Arts, & Writers

  • George Gershwin - merged traditional elements with American jazz. Created a new sound that was pure American
  • Painters appealed by recording American dreams and realities
  • Georgia O'Keeffe - produced intense colored canvases that captured the grandness of New York

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. -Louis Armstrong

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/louis_armstrong_378357

“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.” - Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7330.Sinclair_Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

  • First American to win Nobel Prize in literature
  • In his Novel Babbitt, he used a character named George F. Babbitt
  • Babbitt ridiculed Americans for conformity and materialism

F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • American short story and novelist famous for his portrayal of the Jazz Age
  • He revealed the negative side of wealthy companies through his writing

Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • Wrote poems celebrating youth and a life of independence
  • Turned to social and political themes using modern techniques to express the losses that came with success

Ernest Hemingway

  • Expatriate author
  • Author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms
  • Criticized the glorification of war
  • Introduced a tough, simplified style of writing that set new literary standards

Citations

Citations

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https://www.educationnext.org/the-traditional-high-school/

https://education.uky.edu/epe/epe-faculty/dr-angelo/a-brief-photo-essay-on-the-history-of-kentucky-education-9/

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/headlines-for-wall-st-crash-underwood-archives.html

https://www.reference.com/history/impact-did-radio-1920s-cbd26657a8d16ef4

http://www.west-australian-daily-funeral-and-death-notices.com.au/radio1.html

https://www.sutori.com/item/the-golden-age-of-sports-in-the-1920s-there-was-many-important-and-more-famous

https://www.biography.com/people/gertrude-ederle-9284131

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-babe-ruth-changed-baseball-51810018/

https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/ruth-babe

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Helen-Wills

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/foster-andrew-rube-1879-1930/

http://time.com/4779923/charles-lindbergh-excerpt/

https://blogs.shu.edu/nyc-history/jazz-age-new-york/

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7330.Sinclair_Lewis

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/344/f_-scott-fitzgerald

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