2. Mass Media and the Jazz Age

3. Mass Media
What is it?
“the print and broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people”
Leads to a national culture

4. Movies in the US 123 million people in the US
$100 million a week watching movies!
$850 million a year on radios
Newsprint doubles from

5. Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin

6. “The Jazz Singer”

7. Jazz Sweeps the Nation…
Comes from Blues in New Orleans
Arrives with black musicians in Northern Cities
2/3 of radio time is devoted to Jazz

8. Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
Jazz band leader
Jazz trumpet player

9. “The Lost Generation”
Intellectuals that felt disillusioned with American society
Many moved to Europe (Paris)

10. Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein

11. The Harlem Renaissance
Harlem becomes the cultural center for Black America
Jazz, Poetry, Literature, and Activism

12. Early leader of the NAACP
James Weldon Johnson
Early leader of the NAACP

13. Zora Neale Hurston Anthropologist and author of: “Of Mules and Men”
“Their Eyes Were Watching God”

14. Langston Hughes Poet and Author
One of the most famous and influential members of the Harlem Renaissance
I, Too
The Negro Speaks of Rivers