7 Mass Media and the Jazz Age 1
The Mass Media 2
Movies 3
Newspapers 4
Radio 5
Jazz – features improvisation, a process by which musicians make up music as they are playing it rather than relying completely on printed score. Off-beat rhythm called syncopation Jazz Arrives Mix of African American, ragtime and blues /3 of radio stations played Jazz sum up character of decade = Jazz Age 6
Hottest place to listen to Jazz – Harlem NYC (Cotton Club, Connie’s Inn, Saratoga Club) Duke Ellington – best remembered Jazz Musicians Duke Ellington 1923 band in NY – job at Hollywood Club played until death n 1974 greatest genius as band leader Ellington’s music lives on today – “Bojangles”, “Mood” 7
George Gershwin, “Rhapsody in Blue” Paintings Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent showed the nation’s rougher side Georgia O’Keefe painted natural objects (flowers, animal bones, landscapes) died in 1986 – 100 years old 8
Literature 9
The Lost Generation 10
The Lost Generation Hemingway on the left, Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden; Hadley, Don Stewart and Pat Guthrie. 11
The Harlem Renaissance 12
Renaissance.jpg 13
Dreams 14