 Changing Schools  Mass media  Magazines, Radio & Movies  Sports & American Heroes  Literature, Theater, Music and Art

 Enrollments increases  Types of courses change from only college- prep to vocational training  Immigrants entering schools speak little or no English  Coast of Educating more youth increases dramatically

 Defined  Mass Media: media that reaches a very large audience.  Popular Culture: culture driven by the media and in masses ▪ Examples ▪ Magazines, Radio, Movies: “Talkies” What are some examples of today’s forms of mass media?

Millions flocked to their radios to listen to popular shows such as this one. Avon Comedy Four- Clancys Minstrels 1924 Most powerful media tool at the time: Source of entertainment and news

 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse : Steamboat Willie (1928) Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse : Steamboat Willie (1928)

 Babe Ruth  7yDSAY&feature=fvw 7yDSAY&feature=fvw  How are sports similar/different today?  Andrew “Rub” Foster  Segregation of sports  “Father of Black Baseball”

Phog Allen- Coach from 1920s-1950s

Becomes the hero that America needs in a time of corruption, excess and crime. Inspires Amelia Earhart

 George Gershwin- blends traditional music with jazz to create a distinctive American sound  &feature=related &feature=related  Georgia O’Keefe

 Sinclair Lewis  Ernest Hemingway  The Sun Also Rises  A Farewell to Arms  F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Great Gatsby  This Side of Paradise Writers of the time criticized American culture because they thought it was shallow and materialistic