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Title: Cultural Innovations


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Cultural Innovations
  • The 1920s produced a cultural interest in Art
    and literature, sports, and Motion pictures

2
Modern Art, Literature, Feats
  • Charles Lindbergh- first solo nonstop flight
    across the Atlantic Ocean
  • Spirit of St. Louis
  • New York Paris
  • Carl Sandberg- Chicago poet who used common
    speech to glorify American life
  • Praise equality and a life intensely lived

3
Popular Culture
  • Ernest Hemingway- wrote about restoring myths of
    American heroes
  • Fought in WWI created novels of antiheroes
    flawed characters with good intentions
  • A farewell to Arms

4
Prosperity brings Sports
  • Prosperity during the 20s provides leisure time
    and money
  • Baseball and Boxing
  • Babe Ruth- national hero made famous for hitting
    home runs
  • College football, swimming, and Golf became
    American past-times

5
The Rise of Hollywood
  • Motion Pictures
  • Technology had not created sound yet, so piano
    players entertained the films
  • 1927- first talking picture was showed
  • The Jazz Singer began the Golden Age of Hollywood
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