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EDUCATION AND POPULAR CULTURE

Objectives
Describe the popular culture of the 1920s
Explain why the youth-dominated decade came to be called
the Roaring Twenties

SCHOOLS AND THE MASS MEDIA SHAPE CULTURE

Schools Enrollments

1914

1,000,000
College bound students

1926

4,000,000
Broad range of courses
vocational courses

SCHOOLS AND THE MASS MEDIA SHAPE CULTURE

Schools Enrollments (cont.)

Immigrant children

Expanding News Coverage

Newspaper circulation rises

Local papers begin to be swallowed up by national chains

Teachers had to meet this new demand

Cost of Education
Doubled between 1913 1920
Doubled again 1920 1926
$2.7 billion a year

SCHOOLS AND THE MASS MEDIA SHAPE CULTURE

Radio Comes of Age

Shared
national
experience

tune in on
the
airwaves

The World
Series

The
President

AMERICA CHASES NEW HEROES AND OLD DREAMS

Leisure Time

$4.5 billion spend on entertainment in 1929

Sports Stars
Gertude
Ederle

1st woman to swim the English Channel

Babe Ruth

New York Yankees Home Run King

Andrew
Rube Foster

Father of Black Baseball

Helen Wills

7x Womens singles champ at the U.S. Open

AMERICA CHASES NEW HEROES AND OLD DREAMS

Lindbergs Flight

33 hour 29 minute transatlantic flight

New York to Paris The Spirt of St. Louis
$25,000 Prize for the solo flight

Entertainment and the Arts

The Jazz Singer

Movies

Steam Boat Willie

Talkies
George
Gershwin

Merged classical and jazz

Huge party in Paris

Ticker tape parade in NYC

Georgia OKeeffe

Edward Hopper

AMERICA CHASES NEW HEROES AND OLD DREAMS

Writers of the 1920s
Considered one of the richest eras in countrys literary history
Sinclair Lewis
1st American Noble Prize winner in literature

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz Age
The Great Gatsby

The Lost Generation

Gertrude Stein
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms

1. How did public high school play a role in preparing students for the future?
2. How did various forms of media help to shape American culture in the 1920s?

3. Which heroes and events inspired Americans during the 1920s?

4. What new styles did writers, artists, and composers experiment with in the decade?

5. How did the literature of the time express a clash of values within society?