Popular Culture Ch.19-3

1. Popular Culture Ch.19-3 By By: Tanner Prevratil Chris Roteliuk Brandon Tonokawa Trayce Thompson

2. New Era of the Mass Media • mass media: means of communication that reaches to many people • Television • First broadcasts began in 1949 • 1956 federal Communications Commission FCC • Government agency regulates mass media • Edward R. Murrow • On the scene news • Interviewing

3. TV, Movies, and Radio • TV • Extremely popular, threatened to end radio and movie business • Many different shows, such as dramas, sports events, and children’s shows • Invention of tv dinner so families wouldn’t miss their favorite shows • Portrayed the ideal white family in shows • Stereotyped women and minorities • Shows Father Knows Best and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet stereotyped women as ideal mothers who did all the housework, but were always happy • Critics accused shows of having too much violence • Bad influence on children

4. TV, Movies, and Radio (cont) • Movies • In early 1950s, number of moviegoers decreased by half because of tv • Movies came back by offering things tv didn’t have • Size, color, surround sound • Experimented with Smell-o-vision and 3D glasses • Radio • Survived by offering different programs than TV did • Offered news, weather, music, and community issues instead of drama and variety shows

5. The Beat Movement • An attitude of non-conforming and counterculture that started to arise in the 50s • Attitude mostly held by writers, artists, and musicians in LA, San Francisco, and NYC • Shunned all the popular things the rest of America was doing • No tv • Not living in the suburbs • Not following clothing trends • NOT WORKING!!!!

6. Rock and Roll • Rock ‘N’ Roll became alive and frantic in the mid1950s • Elvis Presley, “Kind of Rock ‘N’ Roll,” • Sam Phillips, in 1955 sold Presley's contract to RCA for $35,000 • Many adults condemned this music, they believed that it would lead teenagers in the wrong direction • In a few cities, rock ‘n’ roll concerts were banned • African-American music had inspired the birth of rock ‘n’ roll • Jazz was made famous by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonius Monk. • Brought through the 1950s, by 1954 there were 250 radio stations nationwide for A-A. • At the end 1950s, A-A were still segregated from the dominant culture. It would become a powerful force for change in the 60s

7. Vocab Mass Media Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Beat Movement Means of communication that reach large audiences Government agency that regulates communication industries Social and literary nonconformity of artists, poets, and writers Term that Alan Freed came up with that describes the music genre that came from rhythm and blues and pop Sonny Rollins, Thelonius Monk, used genre of music known through use of improvisation Rock ‘n’ Roll Jazz

8. Quiz Questions What does the government agency regulate? • Rock and Roll • Federal communication systems • Mass media • Television

9. Quiz Questions In the 1950s, what became extremely popular and threatened to end radio and movie businesses? • Ipods • Television • Cars • Cell phones

10. Quiz Questions What movement was associated with an attitude of non conforming and counterculture in the 1950s? a)The Beat Movement b)The Television movement c)The Schumacher Movement d)The Hippie Movement

11. Quiz Questions What type of music inspired the birth of rock and roll? a)Indian Music b)Punk Music c)Latin Music d)African-American Music e)Emo Music

12. Quiz Questions What music was Sonny Rollins associated with? a)Rock and Roll b)Jazz c)Latin d)Classical

13. Who is this famous Stud?