Mass Media

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Mass Media
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• Nickelodeons-

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Newspapers

• Massive increase in number of newspapers
  available
• Sunday paperbigger edition (why?)

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Radio

• 1920- Westinghouse workers send music and
  baseball games over radio waves
• KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first for profit radio
  station in US (1st broadcast was Harding Pres.
  election)
• WWJ in Detroit soon follows

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• (these stations had powerful signals- heard as
  far away as Australia!)
• NBC- major media network that connected stations
  around the nation
• Content
• Sports, music (JAZZ), religious events, news,
  even drama-type shows

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• Advertisers included Wrigleys, Maxwell House,
  Campbells, General Electric

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Other Trends

• Flagpole sitting- Shipwreck Kelly- 49 days!
• Beauty pageants- Miss America

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• (next day)

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JAZZ
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• Origins of Jazz-African American music of the
  south
• Followed _____ and ________
• Improvisation
• Seemed to sum up the character of the decade
• 1929- 2/3 of all air time devoted to jazz

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Jazz musicians

• Louie Armstrong- trumpet
• Duke Ellington- piano, composer, band leader
• George Gershwin- composer