Mass Media and the Jazz Age13.2

Mass Media

• What is it?• “the print and

broadcast methods of communicating information to large numbers of people”

• Leads to a national culture

Movies in the US• 123 million

people in the US• $100 million a

week watching movies!

• $850 million a year on radios

• Newsprint doubles from 1914-1927

• Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin

“The Jazz Singer”

Jazz Sweeps the Nation…• Comes from Blues in New Orleans• Arrives with black musicians in Northern Cities• 2/3 of radio time is devoted to Jazz

• Duke Ellington and Louis ArmstrongJazz band leader Jazz trumpet player

“The Lost Generation”• Intellectuals that felt disillusioned with American

society• Many moved to Europe (Paris)

• Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein

The Harlem Renaissance

• Harlem becomes the cultural center for Black America

• Jazz, Poetry, Literature, and Activism

Early leader of the NAACP

James Weldon Johnson

Langston Hughes

• Poet and Author• One of the most famous

and influential members of the Harlem Renaissance

• I, Too by Langston Hughes - Poetry Archive

• The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes - Poetry Archive