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Mass Media
• Nickelodeons-
Newspapers
• Massive increase in number of
newspapers available
• Sunday paper=bigger edition (why?)
Radio
• 1920- Westinghouse workers send music
and baseball games over radio waves
• KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first for profit
radio station in US (1st broadcast was
Harding Pres. election)
• WWJ in Detroit soon follows
• (these stations had powerful signalsheard as far away as Australia!)
• NBC- major media network that connected
stations around the nation
• Content:
• Sports, music (JAZZ), religious events,
news, even drama-type shows
• Advertisers included Wrigleys, Maxwell
House, Campbell’s, General Electric
Other Trends
• Flagpole sitting- “Shipwreck” Kelly- 49
days!
• Beauty pageants- Miss America
• (next day)
JAZZ
• Origins of Jazz-African American music of
the south
– Followed _____ and ________
• Improvisation
• Seemed to sum up the character of the
decade
• 1929- 2/3 of all air time devoted to jazz
Jazz musicians
• Louie Armstrong- trumpet
• Duke Ellington- piano, composer, band
leader
• George Gershwin- composer