Education and Popular culture

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Education and Popular culture
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Schools in the 1920s

• 1.) Enrollment- 1 million in 1914 to 4 million in
  1926.
  
• 2.) Immigrants meant language barrier that
  teachers worked around.
  
• 3.) Taxes were raised to keep up with the demand
  on public education.
  
• 4.) Literacy Increased

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Media

• 1.) Growing literacy rate meant more people kept
  up with news.
  
• 2.) Newspapers became more dramatized to attract
  readers.
  
• 3.) Mass circulated magazines such as Time and
  Readers Digest emerged in the 22 and 23,
  respectively.

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Radio

• Radio became the number 1 source of news.
• -Because of no invention of the TV, the radio was
  their TV. And, it really did do pretty much
  everything the TV does for us. If you tuned in at
  the right time, you could catch comedy shows,
  news, live sports events, jazz, variety shows,
  drama, opera, you name it, the radio had it!

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Heroes of the 20s

• Babe Ruth (Pictured Left)-3rd on All-Time Home
  Run list (714)
  
• Charles Lindbergh- Solo non stop flight across
  Atlantic

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Entertainment

• Movies became a choice entertainment, because it
  provided a working class with a way to escape and
  get caught up in a story if only for an hour or
  so.

Charlie Chaplin becomes the king of the silent
film during the 1920s performing in movies such
as The Kid (1921), A Woman of Paris (1923), The
Gold Rush (1925), and The Circus (1928).
Lon Chaney, Sr., the "man of a thousand faces,"
starred in the earliest version of The Hunchback
of Notre Dame (1923), and then poignantly
portrayed the title character of the Paris Opera
House in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) in his
signature role.
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Great writers such as Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, Edna Vincent Millay, and Ernest
Hemingway emerged.

• First Fig
• 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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George Gershwin

• Composed music that had a mix of Jazz which
  produced a distinctly American style.
  

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Georgia OKeeffe

• Became famous for her paintings of New York City
  landscapes.

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African Americans in the 20s

• 1.) NAACP fought for legal rights of colored
  people and against racial violence.
  
• a.) Started by W.E.B. Dubois in 1909.
• b.) James Weldon Johnson
• 2.) Marcus Garvey founded the Universal Negro
  Improvement Association (UNIA) in 1914. He
  believed that African Americans should build a
  separate society.
• a.) Helped to promote Black Pride and
  Economic Independence

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The Harlem Renaissance

• A literary and artistic movement that celebrated
  African American culture.
  
• Was lead by well educated African Americans

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Poetry

• The Harlem Renaissance occurred in all aspects of
  art and culture, but began in literature. Through
  poetry and prose, African-Americans were able to
  express themselves in ways never before possible.

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Claude McKay

• Novelist and Poet
• Urged to resist prejudice and discrimination

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Langston Hughes

• Poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer,
  and newspaper columnist.
  
• Described the difficult lives of the
  working-class African Americans.

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

• I've known rivers I've known rivers ancient as
  the world and older than the flow of human blood
  in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the
  rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns
  were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it
  lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and
  raised the pyramids above it. I heard the
  singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
  down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
  bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've
  known rivers Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul
  has grown deep like the rivers.

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Music

• African Americans in Harlem as well as places
  like New Orleans made Jazz Music popular in both
  white and black society.

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Duke Ellington

• Composer
• Composed many famous pieces used in movies today.

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Bessie Smith

• Largely regarded as the most popular and
  successful blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s,
  and by some as the most influential performer in
  blues history.

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Louis Armstrong

• Became one of the most influencial Jazz musicians
  in history.
  
• Invented Scat