Transcript 21-3: Education and Popular Culture

21-3:
Education and Popular Culture
Enrollments
Types of
Courses
Education
before the
1920s
Education
during the
1920s
Before the 1920s
approximately 1
million high school
students were
enrolled
During the 1920s,
4 million students
were attended
high school
Before the 1920s,
high schools
catered to
college-bound
students
During the 1920s,
they catered to a
broad range of
students, including
those interested in
vocational training
and home
economics
Immigrants
Financing
Education
before the
1920s
Education
during the
1920s
Before the 1920s,
many immigrant
students spoke
some English
During the 1920s,
many immigrant
students spoke no
English
Before the 1920s,
costs doubled
from 1913 to 1920
as enrollment
increased
During the 1920s,
costs doubled
again, totaling 2.7
billion a year by
1926
Popular Culture
Newspapers:
Magazines:
Radio:
Daily News and
Daily Mirror in
NYC
Time, The
Saturday Evening
Post, Collier’s,
Reader’s Digest,
Life, Smart Set,
American Mercury,
The New Yorker
WEAF, General
Electric,
Westinghouse,
RCA, NBC, CBS
As a result of increased literacy more people read newspapers
and magazines than ever before. Mass Media including radio
brought news, sports events, weather, fashions and celebrity
happenings all over the country.
Pop-Culture/Sports
Baseball
Boxing
Babe Ruth Jack
Dempsey
and Gene
Tunney
Football
Tennis
OlympicAthletes
Golf
Red
Grange,
and The
Fighting
Irish and
Knute
Rockne
Big Bill
Tilden and
Helen
Wills
Gertrude
Ederle
Bobby
Jones
MOVIE
STARS
Pop-Culture/The
Movies
Mickey Mouse, as Steamboat
Willie, was the first “talkie”
cartoon 1928
CLARA BOW
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
RUDOLPH VALENTINO
The Jazz Singer
was the first
“Talkie” 1927
MOTION PICTURES
MOTION PICTURES BEGAN IN THE EARLY 1900’S
BY 1925 MOVIES WERE THE FOURTH LARGEST BUSINESS IN
THE U.S.
THE EARLY FILMS WERE SILENT AND BLACK AND WHITE
THE FIRST PICTURE WITH SOUND THE JAZZ SINGER WAS
INTRODUCED IN 1927
WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF “TALKIES” MOVIE ATTENDANCE
WENT FROM 40 MILLION IN 1922 TO OVER 85 MILLION IN 1929
THERE WERE OVER 30,000 MOVIE THEATERS AND MOST
PEOPLE WENT TO THE MOVIES AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK
NEWSREELS WERE SHOWN THAT ALLOWED PEOPLE FOR THE
FIRST TIME TO SEE FILMED NEWS COVERAGE FROM AROUND
THE WORLD
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA BECAME THE CENTER OF THE FILM
INDUSTRY AND MOVIE STARS SET THE TONE FOR FASHION AND
SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
Theater, Music,
and Art
EDWARD HOPPER, ARTIST
EUGENE O’NEILL, NOBEL PRIZE
PLAYWRIGHT
GEORGIA O’KEEFE, ARTIST
AARON COPLAND,WROTE MUSIC
THAT COMBINED POPULAR
AMERICAN MUSIC WITH
GEORGE GERSHWIN,
CLASSICAL FORMS
COMPOSER,
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
AND PORGY AND BESS
During the 1920's a group of
writers known as “The Lost
Generation" gained popularity.
Their writing criticized PostWorld War I American Values
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
writer of poems
celebrating youth and a
life of independence
from traditional
restraints
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD WITH
HIS WIFE ZELDA, “KING
AND QUEEN OF THE JAZZ
AGE”. FITZGERALD WAS
THE AUTHOR OF THE GREAT
GATSBY, A NOVEL OF THE
1920S PORTRAYING
WEALTHY PEOPLE LEADING
EMPTY LIVES
SINCLAIR LEWIS, THE 1ST
AMERICAN TO WIN THE NOBEL
PRIZE FOR LITERATURE, HE TOOK
AIM AT THE SHALLOW EXISTENCE
OF MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICA IN
SUCH NOVELS AS BABBITT
ERNEST
HEMINGWAY,
WOUNDED IN WORLD
WAR I, CRITICIZED
THE GLORIFICATION
OF WAR AND
INTRODUCED A
STYLE OF WRITING
BASED ON
POWERFUL BUT
SHORT SENTENCELENGTHS
Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic solo in
33 ½ hours, 1,000 miles of the flight was
through snow and sleet, May 21, 1927
Audio-Video links
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http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=LINDBERGH+FLIGHT+1927&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#q=LINDBERGH+FLIG
HT+1927&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f&start=20&view=2&qvid=LINDBERGH+FLIGHT+1927&vid=2544029238750140559 Lindbergh flight
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http://www.fanfaire.com/audiofiles/audiogershwin.html Gershwin audio link
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEaT_UQnVM Steamboat Willie
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OAlbfZRCvY The Son of the Sheik – Rudolph Valentino (silent)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nEk5Uq2vQM The little Tramp – Charlie Chaplin (silent)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WZRUIfHjo AL Jolson- the Jazz Singer toot-toot-tootsie goodbye