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Section 3
More Leisure Time for Americans -People wanted more fun -Had more money -Movies -First movies were in the 1890s -In 1927, first talking movie (Jazz Singer) -Sound brought about musicals and the news -Walt Disney -1928àSteamboat Willie -Samuel Goldwyn, Warner Brothers, Louis Mayer -By 1929, 100m. people went to movies per week -Radio -In 1920, the first radio stations went on the air -KDKA Pittsburgh -By 1929, 800 radio stations reached 1/3 homes -Music, sports events, comedy shows, soaps -2 major networks had stations nationwide -National Broadcasting Company (NBC) -Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Search for Heroes -Rudolph Valentino -Movie star -Babe Ruth ($80,000 year) -Helen Wills (Tennis) -Jim Thorpe -Greatest all-around athlete ever -Bobby Jones (golf) -Gertrude Ederle (first woman to swim English Channel) -Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart
Harlem Renaissance -In the 1920s, African American writers, artists, actors, musicians had a renewed sense of “black pride” -Huge in NYCàHarlem -Popularized Jazz, religious songs, blues -Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington -Poetry -Langston Hughes -Countee Cullen
Lost Generation-Some young writers were haunted by WWI -“Lost Generation” -Many went to Parisàfreedom and tolerance -Expatriates (people who choose to live in a country other than their own) -Ernest Hemingway -The Sun Also Rises -WWI veterans life -F. Scott Fitzgerald -This Side of Paradise -Rich college students’ lives (fast living, alcohol) -The Great Gatsby -Emptiness to life
Art and Design-Painting -Georgia O’Keefeà-Flowers -Photography -Design -Creating objects that were functional and nice to look at -Stainless steel, plastic were used -Radios, clocks, appliances, trains, planes, ships -Architecture -Frank Lloyd Wright
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