1. Popular Culture of the 20’s and 30’s
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Popular Culture of the 20’s and 30’s
How did radio, movies, newspapers and magazines promote challenges to traditional values?

2. Mass Media: Radio
Broadcast Jazz Music
Soap Operas
Fireside Chats

3. Mass Media: Movies Provided information through “Newsreels”
Escape from realities of the Depression
Many different types of movies were popular

4. Mass Media: Newspapers and Magazines
Sparked fads in fashion and style
Muckraking was still popular
Helped to shape cultural norms and serve as a “nationalizing” agent

5. Challenges to Traditional Values
Traditional Religion
Darwin’s Theory and the Scopes Trial

6. Challenges to Traditional Values
Traditional Role of Women
Flappers
19th Amendment

7. Challenges to Traditional Values
Open Immigration
Immigration Restriction Act of 1921
Rise of the new KKK

8. Challenges to Traditional Values
Smuggling – Bootleggers
Speakeasies
Rise of Organized Crime
Prohibition

9. Popular culture reflected the prosperity of the era as America underwent another social transformation.