Section 3: Education & Popular Culture

1. Section 3: Education & Popular Culture • Changing Schools • Mass media • Magazines, Radio & Movies • Sports & American Heroes • Literature , Theater, Music and Art

2. Changing Schools • Enrollments increases • Types of courses change from only college-prep to vocational training • Immigrants entering schools speak little or no English • Coast of Educating more youth increases dramatically

3. Mass Media & Popular Culture • Defined • Mass Media: media that reaches a very large audience. • Popular Culture: culture driven by the media and in masses • Examples • Magazines, Radio, Movies: “Talkies” What are some examples of today’s forms of mass media?

4. Radio Most powerful media tool at the time: Source of entertainment and news Millions flocked to their radios to listen to popular shows such as this one. Avon Comedy Four- Clancys Minstrels 1924

5. “Talkies”– Movies with Sound • Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse : Steamboat Willie (1928)

6. Sports & American Heros • Babe Ruth • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB1Z-7yDSAY&feature=fvw • How are sports similar/different today? • Andrew “Rub” Foster • Segregation of sports • “Father of Black Baseball”

7. KU Sports in the 1920s Phog Allen- Coach from 1920s-1950s

8. Charles Lindbergh Becomes the hero that America needs in a time of corruption, excess and crime. Inspires Amelia Earhart

9. Theater, Music and Art • George Gershwin- blends traditional music with jazz to create a distinctive American sound • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc&feature=related • Georgia O’Keefe

10. Georgia O’Keeffe

11. Literature • Sinclair Lewis • Ernest Hemingway • The Sun Also Rises • A Farewell to Arms • F. Scott Fitzgerald • The Great Gatsby • This Side of Paradise Writers of the time criticized American culture because they thought it was shallow and materialistic

12. New cultural ideas…