TODAYS OBJECTIVES Identify & understand how mass media and
population density can serve as the impetus for social change.
Realize that culture is seldom a monolithic entity.
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MASS MEDIA How does technology affect how we communicate? How
we gather knowledge? What affect does this have on us today?
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NEW FORMS OF MEDIA Movies - the Jazz Singer, 1927 Radio KDKA,
1920 Newspapers, Magazines & Tabloids What are some outcomes of
such forms of technological development?
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% INCREASES IN MEDIA USE Between 1920 and 1929, circulation
rose from 27,791,000 to 39,426,000 an increase of 42% Between 1922
and 1929, the number of people attending rose from 40 million to 80
million a week, a 100% increase Between 1922 and 1929, the number
of households who own one rose from 60,000 to 10,250,000 an
increase of 16,983%
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THE JAZZ AGE What is Jazz? Louis Armstrong - Heebie Jeebies
Heebie Jeebies Scat What do you think led to the prominence of Jazz
music?
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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE New York, New York African American
Population goes from 50,000 to 200,000 between 1914 & 1930
James Johnson, NAACP Executive Secretary & Writer Langston
Hughes
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STROLLING IN HARLEM According to Johnson, why does Harlem have
a world-wide reputation? What is unrealistic about the picture of
Harem that the outside world has? How do ordinary people in Harlem
socialize during summer evenings? In what ways is the summer walk
that Johnson describes an adventure?
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THE LOST GENERATION Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest
Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Edna St. Vincent My candle burns at both
ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh my
friends It gives a lovely light
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TICKET OUT THE DOOR Name one effect that Mass Media had on the
culture of the United States. What are some reasons for the
emergence of Jazz in United States culture? Define the group that
was known as the Lost Generation, how did they feel about what was
happening during the 1920s?