Education – Popular Culture Chapter 13 Section 3
Education 1914 = 1 million Americans attended school Immigrants - challenge Educated students in vocational training Industrial jobs
Multimedia Newspaper circulation rose Mass-circulation = magazines Sensational stories – tabloids Mass-circulation = magazines Readers Digest Time Radio = Most powerful communication Hearing news as it happened
Baseball Americans - Spending money on entertainment Baseball = Babe Ruth Yankees “House that Ruth Built”
Heroes Charles A. Lindbergh 1st non-stop flight across Atlantic May 20, 1927 “Spirit of St. Louis” 33 hours and 29 minutes $25,000 prize
Entertainment First movie with sound First animated film with sound The Jazz Singer – 1927 First animated film with sound Walt Disney’s = Steamboat Willie - 1928 http://video.disney.com/watch/steamboat-willie- 4ea9de5180b375f7476ada2c F. Scott Fitzgerald Coined the term “Jazz Age” A new sound Great Gatsby African Americans began to voice pride in their heritage Richness in culture
Harlem Renaissance Chapter 13 Section 4
African Americans NAACP Great Migration Move North - Employment 40% lived in cities NAACP Protest racial violence Fought legislation to protect rights New more militant voice of African Americans
Harlem Renaissance Harlem Harlem Renaissance Neighborhood on the Upper West Side of New York’s = Manhattan Island Worlds largest black urban community Harlem Renaissance Literary and artistic movement celebrating African- American culture Led by educated / middle class African Americans Resist prejudice / discrimination
Literature Langston Hughes Movement’s best known poet Described difficult lives of working-class Some moved to the tempo of Jazz and the blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cKDOGhghMU
Jazz Originated = New Orleans Blended instrumental ragtime / vocal blues Louis Armstrong Trumpet player Most important / influential musician in history of jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iJdXWY7JRo
Musicians “Duke” Ellington” Bessie Smith Jazz pianist Composer 10-piece orchestra One of America’s greatest composers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPVlxa2kgjg Bessie Smith Female Blues singer Outstanding vocalist of the decade Highest paid African American artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNWs0LsimFs
Jazz Music – 1920’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgcJyZA-rrE\
Artists Jungle Nights in Harlem Deadman Blues Charleston Duke Ellington Deadman Blues Jelly Roll Morton Charleston James P. Johnson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kJWdUFzL0Y West End Blues, What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith W.C. Handy