MASS MEDIA & THE JAZZ AGE

TODAY’S OBJECTIVES Identify & understand how mass media and population density can serve as the impetus for social change. Realize that culture is seldom a monolithic entity.

MASS MEDIA How does technology affect how we communicate? How we gather knowledge? What affect does this have on us today?

NEW FORMS OF MEDIA Movies - the Jazz Singer, 1927 Radio – KDKA, 1920 Newspapers, Magazines & Tabloids What are some outcomes of such forms of technological development?

% INCREASES IN MEDIA USE Between 1920 and 1929, circulation rose from 27,791,000 to 39,426,000 an increase of 42% Between 1922 and 1929, the number of people attending rose from 40 million to 80 million a week, a 100% increase Between 1922 and 1929, the number of households who own one rose from 60,000 to 10,250,000 an increase of 16,983%

THE JAZZ AGE What is Jazz? Louis Armstrong - Heebie Jeebies Heebie Jeebies Scat What do you think led to the prominence of Jazz music?

THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE New York, New York African American Population goes from 50,000 to 200,000 between 1914 & 1930 James Johnson, NAACP Executive Secretary & Writer Langston Hughes

STROLLING IN HARLEM According to Johnson, why does Harlem have a world-wide reputation? What is unrealistic about the picture of Harem that the outside world has? How do ordinary people in Harlem socialize during summer evenings? In what ways is the summer walk that Johnson describes an adventure?

THE LOST GENERATION Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent “ My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh my friends— It gives a lovely light”

TICKET OUT THE DOOR Name one effect that Mass Media had on the culture of the United States. What are some reasons for the emergence of Jazz in United States’ culture? Define the group that was known as the “Lost Generation”, how did they feel about what was happening during the 1920s?

AUTOMAT BY EDWARD HOPPER