APUSHING 7.2 Innovations in communications and technology contributed to the growth of mass culture, while significant changes occurred in internal and international migration.

7.2.I “Popular culture grew in influence in U.S society, even as debates increased over the effects of culture on public values, morals, and American national identity.” Tradition RevolutionReaction

7.2.I.A: Radios New forms of mass media, such as radio and cinema, contributed to the spread of national culture as well as greater awareness of regional cultures. Radio shows featured music, news, sermons, comedy, and drama. Note how Amos N’ Anthony is a throwback to old minstrel shows. Common news, music, entertainment: formation of a modern-common culture.

7.2.I.A: Motion Pictures

Birth of a Nation (1915) “Scene from D.W. Griffith's notorious "Birth of a Nation" showcasing the overt racism, glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, subtle sexuality, and white myth of physical superiority that was popular during film's early days in the United States.”--

Sunnyside (1919)

Nosferatu (1922)

Wings (1927)

The Jazz Singer (1927)

Steamboat Willie (1928)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

7.2.I.B: Migration gave rise to new forms of art and literature that expressed ethnic and regional identities such as the Harlem Renaissance movement.

Langston Hughes I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed — I, too, am America.

Jazz

Duke Ellington

What’s Going On Here?

Louis B. Armstrong

Yiddish Theater

Edward Hopper

7.2.I.C: World War I and Tensions at Home Political repression Espionage Act (1917) and Schenck v. United States Sedition Act (1918) Speech can pose a “Clear and present danger” Labor Problems Inflation and stagnation Seattle General Strike Management ties Unions to Bolshevism “Red Scare” Comintern Palmer Raids Emma Goldman Nativism Sacco and Vanzetti Quota Act (1921)

Comintern

Red Scare

Palmer Raids IWW Offices after a raidAfter a bombing

Emma Goldman

Sacco and Vanzetti

Folk Music and Politics

Management v. Labor (a continuity)

New Nativism and New Immigration

Immigration Quotas (1921)

POV?

7.2.I.D: Racial Clashes

“Strange Fruit” Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees Pastoral scene of the gallant South The bulgin' eyes and the twisted mouth Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh Then the sudden smell of burnin' flesh Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop

7.2.I.D: Fundamentalism v. Science

Inherit the Wind

7.2.I.D: Urban v. Rural Culture

Urban v. Rural

Cultural Disillusionment (So much for Roaring 20s)

Not Just the U.S. --Erich Maria Remarche

Disillusioned or Idealistic?

Lost Generation Literature The Great Gatsby (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald Main Street (1920) Babbit (1924), by Sinclair Lewis A Farewell to Arms (1929), by Ernest Hemingway What do they have in common?

Idealism?

1930s Literature The Good Earth The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men Gone with the Wind It Can’t Happen Here The Disinherited Waiting for Lefty

Okies

Dust Bowl

Internal Migrations

Great Depression Deportations

Continuity…