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Cultural Innovations

Cultural Innovations. Art and Literature. Poets and writers used a variety of subject matter in the 1920s Carl Sandburg: used speech to glorify the Midwest TS Eliot: wrote about negative effects of modernism. Art and Literature. WWI affected many American novelists.

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Cultural Innovations

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  1. Cultural Innovations

  2. Art and Literature • Poets and writers used a variety of subject matter in the 1920s • Carl Sandburg: used speech to glorify the Midwest • TS Eliot: wrote about negative effects of modernism

  3. Art and Literature • WWI affected many American novelists. • They wrote about disillusionment with war and myths of American heroes.

  4. Art and Literature • Ernest Hemingway was one such writer • Used vivid descriptions of events to group readers imaginations • F. Scott Fitzgerald was another • His work personified the high society’s life of the 1920s and the emptiness behind their glorified lifestyle

  5. Pop Culture • Sports: • Many Americans spent their spare time and money watching sporting events • Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey became celebrities. • Movies: • They were more popular than sports • The first movie with sound was released in 1927

  6. Pop Culture • Radio: • Most radio stations played the most popular music of the day. • Radio shows also included classical music and comedy shows. • Radios also supplemented mass media

  7. Mass Media • Aimed at a broad popular audience • Helped expand people’s view of the world • Helped unify the nation and spread new ideas of the time

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