Download - Section 3: Education & Popular Culture
Changing Schools Mass media
Magazines, Radio & Movies Sports & American Heroes Literature , Theater, Music and Art
Enrollments increases Types of courses change from only
college-prep to vocational training Immigrants entering schools speak
little or no EnglishCoast of Educating more youth
increases dramatically
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?
Millions flocked to their radios to listen to popular shows such as this one.
Avon Comedy Four- Clancys Minstrels 1924
Most powerful media tool at the time: Source of entertainment and news
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse : Steamboat Willie (1928)
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”
Phog Allen- Coach from 1920s-1950s
Becomes the hero that America needs in a time of corruption, excess and crime.
Inspires Amelia Earhart
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
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