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Education – Popular Culture
Chapter 13 Section 3
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Education 1914 = 1 million Americans attended school
Immigrants - challenge Educated students in vocational training Industrial jobs
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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
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Baseball Americans - Spending money on entertainment
Baseball = Babe Ruth Yankees “House that Ruth Built”
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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
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Entertainment First movie with sound First animated film with sound
The Jazz Singer – 1927 First animated film with sound Walt Disney’s = 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
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Harlem Renaissance Chapter 13 Section 4
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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
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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
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Literature Langston Hughes Movement’s best known poet
Described difficult lives of working-class Some moved to the tempo of Jazz and the blues
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Jazz Originated = New Orleans
Blended instrumental ragtime / vocal blues Louis Armstrong Trumpet player Most important / influential musician in history of jazz
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Musicians “Duke” Ellington” Bessie Smith Jazz pianist Composer
10-piece orchestra One of America’s greatest composers Bessie Smith Female Blues singer Outstanding vocalist of the decade Highest paid African American artist
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Jazz Music – 1920’s
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Artists Jungle Nights in Harlem Deadman Blues Charleston
Duke Ellington Deadman Blues Jelly Roll Morton Charleston James P. Johnson West End Blues, What a Wonderful World Louis Armstrong St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith W.C. Handy
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