Education –
Popular Culture
CHAPTER 13
SECTION 3
Education
1914 = 1 million Americans attended school
1926 = 4 million Americans attended school
◦ Immigrants - challenge
Educated students in vocational training
◦ Industrial jobs
Multimedia
Newspaper circulation rose
◦ Sensational stories – tabloids
Mass-circulation = magazines
◦ Readers Digest
◦ Time
Radio = Most powerful communication
◦ Hearing news as it happened
Baseball
Americans - Spending money on entertainment
◦ Baseball = Babe Ruth
◦ Yankees
◦ “House that Ruth Built”
Heroes
Charles A. Lindbergh
◦ 1st non-stop flight across
Atlantic
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May 20, 1927
“Spirit of St. Louis”
33 hours and 29 minutes
$25,000 prize
Entertainment
First movie with sound
◦ The Jazz Singer – 1927
First animated film with sound
◦ Walt Disney’s = Steamboat Willie 1928
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq0e4WjL7G0
F. Scott Fitzgerald
◦ Coined the term “Jazz Age”
◦ A new sound
◦ Great Gatsby
African Americans began to voice
pride in their heritage
◦ Richness in culture
Harlem
Renaissance
CHAPTER 13
SECTION 4
African Americans
Great Migration
◦ Move North - Employment
◦ 40% lived in cities
NAACP
◦ Protest racial violence
◦ Fought legislation to protect rights
◦ New more militant voice of African Americans
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem
◦ Neighborhood on the Upper West Side of New York’s =
Manhattan Island
◦ Worlds largest black urban community
Harlem Renaissance
◦ Literary and artistic movement celebrating AfricanAmerican culture
◦ Led by educated / middle class African Americans
◦ Resist prejudice / discrimination
Literature
Langston Hughes
◦ Movement’s best known poet
◦ Described difficult lives of working-class
◦ Some moved to the tempo of Jazz and the blues
◦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cKDOGhghMU
Jazz
Originated = New Orleans
Blended instrumental ragtime
/ vocal blues
Louis Armstrong
◦ Trumpet player
◦ Most important / influential
musician in history of jazz
◦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE
◦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iJdXWY7JRo
Musicians
“Duke” Ellington”
◦ Jazz pianist
◦ Composer
◦ 10-piece orchestra
◦ One of America’s greatest
composers
◦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPVlxa2kgjg
Bessie Smith
◦ Female Blues singer
◦ Outstanding vocalist of the
decade
◦ Highest paid African American
artist
◦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNWs0LsimFs
Jazz Music – 1920’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgcJyZA-rrE\
Artists
Jungle Nights in Harlem
◦ Duke Ellington
West End Blues, What a Wonderful
World
◦ Louis Armstrong
Deadman Blues
◦ Jelly Roll Morton
St. Louis Blues
◦ Bessie Smith
Charleston
◦ James P. Johnson
◦ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kJWdUFzL0Y
St. Louis Blues
◦ W.C. Handy