Education and Popular Culture in the 20s How do schools & mass media shape the Roaring 20s?
Education on the rise Public school enrollment increases by 2.5 million students in the 1920s ● Secondary schools prepare students for job market (vocational education) ● Student dress, slang & behavior become the “norm” for pop culture ● School costs increase, meaning tax increases for average citizens
2) Dance Marathons Fads of the Roaring 20s 1) Flagpole sitting 5) The Charleston P U Z Z L E S 3) Barnstormers 4) Games S W O R http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0&feature=related D
Mass Media ● Newspaper & magazine circulation increases causing more literacy ● Radio: allows people to hear live sporting events, news & entertainment
Sports Heroes Baseball: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig & Andrew “Rube” Foster Gertrude Ederie was first woman to swim the English Channel Helen Willis dominated women’s tennis Jack Dempsey dominates boxing
w/ sound “Steamboat Willie” That’s Entertainment! ● Charlie Chaplain: most famous silent movie stars ● 1927: 1st movie with sound, “ The Jazz Singer” ● 1928: First animated film w/ sound “Steamboat Willie” George Gershwin = top composer of 1920s Georgia O’ Keefe top 1920s artist
Famous American Writers ● Sinclair Lewis = 1st American to win the Nobel Prize in literature ● F. Scott Fitzgerald , wrote Great Gatsby, coined the term “jazz age” ● Edna St. Vincent Millay = wrote poems celebrating youth & independence ● Ernest Hemingway = Criticizes the glorification of war, he & Fitzgerald part of Lost Generation
Aviation Heroes Charles Lindbergh 1st person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (1927) NY-Paris Becomes instant celebrity/first airline “Pan-Am” is born Amelia Earhart 1st woman to cross Atlantic (1928, 1932) 1st person to fly from HI to CA (1935) Tries to circumnavigate the globe but plane disappears (1937)