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Chapter 24. National Culture: Americans Share a Common Experience. National radio networks such as NBC and CBS formed New access to music, news, political speeches, sports broadcasts, and more Advertising reached millions of listeners. Movies. People packed theaters
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National Culture:Americans Share a Common Experience • National radio networks such as NBC and CBS formed • New access to music, news, political speeches, sports broadcasts, and more • Advertising reached millions of listeners
Movies • People packed theaters • Talkie: movies with sound • U.S. population was 123 million • 95 million movie tickets were purchased each week • Mary Pickford “America’s Sweetheart”: founder of United Artists • http://www.biography.com/people/mary-pickford-9440298#awesm=~oDkQlnMPfgi55r
Fans packed baseball stadiums • George Herman “Babe” Ruth
Charles Lindberg: completed the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic • Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Popular Music • Jazz: developed in New Orleans • African Americans blended spirituals with European harmonies and West African rhythms • When blacks moved north in the Great Migration, they took this music with them • http://youtu.be/sIILBeUrYLk • http://youtu.be/kmfeKUNDDYs • http://youtu.be/CT4z847-hyc
Harlem Renaissance • A period of African American artistic accomplishment • Langston Hughes wrote poems, plays, and novels about African American Life
Writers • F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby – focus on the loss of morality behind the seemingly fun and free spirited times of the Jazz Age. • Ernest Hemingway • Gertrude Stein
Art • Georgia O’Keefe: experimented with new artistic styles
Architecture • Art Deco: Clean sharp lines that resembled machines