Education and Popular Culture Chapter 13 Section 3

Education and Popular Culture Chapter 13 Section 3 Pages 446 -451

Objectives n Describe the popular culture of the 1920 s. n Explain why youth-dominated decade came to be called the Roaring Twenties.

Main Idea n The mass media, movies, and spectator sports played important roles in creating the popular culture of the 1920 s – a culture that many artists and writers criticized.

Why It Matters Now n Much of today’s popular culture can trace its roots to the popular culture of the 1920 s.

Education n High School Enrollments ¨ 1914 = 1 million ¨ 1926 = 4 million Prosperity n Vocational training n

Education n Teaching immigrant children n Spoke no English n Taxes increase n Total cost in 1925 = $2. 7 billion a year

US Dept of Education n $71. 5 billion per year n 14, 600 school districts n approximately 54 million students n nearly 9. 9 million postsecondary students n http: //www. ed. gov/about/overview/budget/index. html? src=ln

PA Dept of Education n n Basic Education Funding for 2005 -2006 is $4, 492, 184, 000 http: //www. pdeinfo. state. pa. us/education_budget/cwp/view. asp? a=3&Q=71004&education_budget. Nav=|4869|&ed ucation_budget. Nav=| North Penn School District Budget, Taxes, Per Pupil Costs 2005 -2006 budget—$169, 679, 139 n Per pupil costs—$12, 846 n

Expanding News Coverage n Sensational tabloid headlines n National chain newspapers n Mass-circulation magazines ¨Reader’s Digest ¨Time

Radio Comes of Age Most powerful medium n 1 st commercial station KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA n News as it happened n Larger world appears n ¨ Voice of our president ¨ World Series live

New Heroes and Old Dreams n 1929, $4. 5 billion spent on entertainment n. Golden Age of Sports n n n Babe Ruth Red Grange Jack Dempsey Gertrude Ederle Andrew “Rube” Foster Helen Wills n n Ty Cobb Bill Tilden Knute Rockne Lou Gehrig The power of the individual to improve their life

Lindbergh’s Flight n 1 st nonstop solo flight of the Atlantic n $25, 000 prize n Spirit of St. Louis n New York to Paris n 33 hours and 29 minutes n Represented bravery and honesty in an age of sensationalism, excess, and crime

Film n The Jazz Singer, 1927 n Disney’s Steamboat Willie, 1928 n These talkies double movie attendance

Plays n The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill forces reflection on isolation, confusion, and family conflict n Eugene O’Neill was one of the greatest playwrights in American history.

Music George Gershwin merges traditional elements with American jazz n Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris and Concerto in F n

Painters n Edward Hopper paints empty streets and lonely people

Painters n Georgia O’Keefe Manhattan 1932 Georgia O'Keeffe Smithsonian American Art Museum

Writers Sinclair Lewis – 1 st Nobel Prize in literature n Ridicules conformity and materialism in novel Babbit n

Writers F. Scott Fitzgerald n Coins term “Jazz Age” to describe the 1920 s n This Side of Paradise and the Great Gatsby n Reveals the negative aspects of wealthy, attractive socialites in NYC n

Writers Edna St. Vincent Millay n Celebrates youth and a life of independence from traditional constraints n

Writers Ernest Hemingway n Criticizes the glorification of war n Tough, simplified style of writing setting a new literary standard. n The Sun Also Rises n A Farewell to Arms n