Changing Schools Mass media

Magazines, Radio & Movies Sports & American Heroes Literature , Theater, Music and Art

Enrollments increases Types of courses change from only

college-prep to vocational training Immigrants entering schools speak

little or no EnglishCoast of Educating more youth

increases dramatically

Defined Mass Media: media that reaches a very

large audience. Popular Culture: culture driven by the

media and in masses ▪ Examples▪ Magazines, Radio, Movies: “Talkies”

What are some examples of today’s forms of mass media?

Millions flocked to their radios to listen to popular shows such as this one.

Avon Comedy Four- Clancys Minstrels 1924

Most powerful media tool at the time: Source of entertainment and news

Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse : Steamboat Willie (1928)

Babe Ruth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB1Z-

7yDSAY&feature=fvw How are sports similar/different today?

Andrew “Rub” Foster Segregation of sports “Father of Black Baseball”

Phog Allen- Coach from 1920s-1950s

Becomes the hero that America needs in a time of corruption, excess and crime.

Inspires Amelia Earhart

George Gershwin- blends traditional music with jazz to create a distinctive American sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=1U40xBSz6Dc&feature=related

Georgia O’Keefe

Sinclair Lewis Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises A Farewell to Arms

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby This Side of Paradise Writers of the time criticized American

culture because they thought it was shallow and materialistic