Culture of the Roaring 20’sRadio

KDKA PittsburghGE, Westinghouse,& RCA form

NBC

Silent MoviesCharlie Chaplin

“Talkies”The Jazz SingerStarring Al Jolson

Mary Pickford“America’s Sweetheart”

Notes Chapter 10 part 3Charles Lindbergh

• On May 20th, 1927 a 25 year old pilot named Charles Lindbergh takes off from a small airfield named Roosevelt Field in Long Island New York.

• His goal was to fly non stop across the Atlantic Ocean.

• His plane is named the Spirit of St. Louis.

Lindbergh part 2• He did not have a parachute or a radio

because he needed to save weight.• He only packed a few things:

1. Razor 3. 5 Sandwiches2. Passport 4. Quart of Water

• The flight took him over 33 hours and 3,605 miles to reach Paris.

• He landed at Le Bourget airfield in Paris.

Poets and Writers• Carl Sandburg Poet(3)Chicago poet who Glorified the Midwest and American life• T.S. Eliot Poet

(4)Wrote the famous poem The Hollow Men• Eugene O’Neil Playwright

His plays were realistic situations about life• Ernest Hemingway Writer

(5)WW1 vet who wrote about WWI in A Farewell to Arms

• F. Scott Fitzgerald Writer(6)Wrote about society in The Great Gatsby

• (7)Edith Wharton – Pulitzer prize winner w/ Age of Innocence

The 20’s is The Jazz Age- (8)more free time- more entertainment

The Flappersmake upcigarettes

short skirts

MusiciansLouis ArmstrongDuke Ellington

WritersF. Scott FitzgeraldErnest Hemingway

(11)Mass Media- Entertainment for the entireCountry now , not just a small territory

CelebritiesBabe Ruth &Ty Cobb

Jack Dempsey

Charles Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis

Sports

• Due to shorter work days and more money from factories, people had more time to watch and play sports.

• (12)Babe Ruth who played for the New York Yankees hit 60 home runs in 1927.

• Lou Gehrig started his consecutive game streak in 1925. (2,130 consecutive games)

• (13)Boxer Jack Dempsey held the heavyweight title from 1919 to 1926.

• Golfer (15)Bobby Jones is still considered the greatest. He designed Augusta National (The Masters).

Sports

• The Pride of the Yankees – Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig

Jack Dempsey –”The Manassa Mauler”

• His opponents feared him – his fans adored him –

• His record – 60-7-8• Finally defeated (twice)• by Gene Tunney

Bobby Jones

• From 1923 to 1930 he won thirteen major championships and remains the only player ever to win all four majors in the same year-all before retiring from competitive golf when he was just 28 years old.

(14)Red Grange “the galloping ghost”

• Most famous football player in 1920s

• Created and put professional football (NFL) on the map

Rise of Hollywood

• In 1927 the first talking picture was made titled (9)The Jazz Singer.

• In 1928 the first animated talking picture was made titled Steamboat Willie featuring Mickey Mouse as the lead character.

• A movie theater was called “the silver screen.”

• Tickets usually cost about 15 to 20 cents.

Movie Stars

Radio• During WWI it was illegal to own a radio. The

government lifted the ban in 1919.• By 1922 there were 22 different radio stations around the

country.• (10)The most popular show started in 1926 and was

called Amos ‘n’ Andy.• Two Southern African Americans

HARLEM RENAISSANCE• (19)HARLEM, NEW YORK – the soul of African

Americans

• (17)Rise in African Americans role in United States Society

• Changing of the balance of power with mass media media and movie stars to come.

• (18)Great migration- 1000s African

Americans move North

Jazz and Blues• Jazz was started in New Orleans.• Mix of blues and ragtime • A very famous jazz musician was Louis Armstrong.• (23)Edward Duke Ellington was another popular artist• The(24) Cotton Club was a famous jazz club in Harlem

New York.

• Bessie Smith was a famous Blues singer. Her title was

“Empress of the Blues.” She was born in Tennessee.

Bessie Smith• She was the greatest of

the classic Blues singers of the 1920s born in (27)TN

• Her rendition of "St. Louis Blues" with Armstrong is considered by most critics to be one of finest recordings of the 1920s Bessie had started to style herself as a Swing musician and was on the verge of a comeback when her life was tragically cut short by an automobile accident in 1937. Their car rear-ended a slow moving truck and rolled over crushing Smith's left arm and ribs. Smith bled to death by the time she reached the hospital.

• (21)Louis Armstrong was the greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it was to play Jazz. His amazing technical abilities, the joy and spontaneity, and amazingly quick, inventive musical mind still dominate Jazz

African American Power increases• (29)WW1 set up African Americans for Politics

• Oscar Depriest-

(30)1st African American in politics

- NAACP power moves forward

(32)Negro Nationalism begins» With Marcus Garvey and the United Negro

Improvement Association

WHO CARES AND SO WHAT• THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF ALL

ENTERTAINMENT IN THE USA!!!!• SPORTS

• MUSIC

• MOVIES

• TV COMES NEXT

Ch 10 Sec 4 &5 –Tech Time- Be sure to put your name on your e-mail1- New music, entertainment, motion pictures 25- “Empress of the Blues

2- European artist who drew landscapes 26- soul music from African American spirituals

3- Chicago Poet who wrote about the Midwest 27- TN

4- TS Elliot 28- Josephine Baker

5- WW1 vet wrote about heroes with “Call to Arms” 29- WW1

6- Wrote the Great Gatsby 30- 1st African American in Congress

7- Edith Wharton & Age of innocence 31- National Assoc. for Advance. of Colored People

8- Free time 32- African American protestor started negro

9- Jazz Singer Nationalism

10- Two southern African Americans

11- Entertainment that reaches across the country

12- Baseball star who hit homeruns

13- 1920s boxing champion

14- 1st famous football player / galloping ghost

15- famous golfer who created and won PGA

16- Power tools, refrigerator, iron, washing machine

17- growth of African American arts in USA

18- 1000s of African Americans move from south to north

19- Harlem , NY

20- Black writer of “Their eyes Watching GOD”

21-Jazz trumpet player who created jazz

22- mix of blues and ragtime music of 1920s

23- Edward Ellington

24- Most famous Jazz club in NY