1. 7 Mass Media and the Jazz Age http://www.bri.ucla.edu/nha/ishn/hollywoodland-small.jpg 1

2. The Mass Media 2

3. Movies http:// www.originalprop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/hollywood-auction-29.jpg 3

4. Newspapers http://www.notablebiographies.com/images/uewb_05_img0327.jpg 4

5. Radio http://old-photos.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html 5

6.  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  1929 2/3 of radio stations played Jazz  sum up character of decade = Jazz Age http://galenet.galegroup.com/images/src/pct/00034076.jpg 6

7.  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” http://www.jubileejumpers.de/images/cotton-club.gif 7

8.  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

9. Literature 9

10. The Lost Generation 10

11. The Lost Generation Hemingway on the left, Harold Loeb, Lady Duff Twysden; Hadley, Don Stewart and Pat Guthrie. 11

12. The Harlem Renaissance 12

13. http://ron-carr.com/WEBU/Websites/Elliott/The-Harlem- Renaissance.jpg 13

14. Dreams http://youthincontrol.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/quotes_langston-hughes.jpg 14