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Title: Mass Media


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Mass Media
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  • Nickelodeons-

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Newspapers
  • Massive increase in number of newspapers
    available
  • Sunday paperbigger edition (why?)

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Radio
  • 1920- Westinghouse workers send music and
    baseball games over radio waves
  • KDKA in Pittsburgh was the first for profit radio
    station in US (1st broadcast was Harding Pres.
    election)
  • WWJ in Detroit soon follows

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  • (these stations had powerful signals- heard as
    far away as Australia!)
  • NBC- major media network that connected stations
    around the nation
  • Content
  • Sports, music (JAZZ), religious events, news,
    even drama-type shows

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  • Advertisers included Wrigleys, Maxwell House,
    Campbells, General Electric

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Other Trends
  • Flagpole sitting- Shipwreck Kelly- 49 days!
  • Beauty pageants- Miss America

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  • (next day)

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JAZZ
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  • Origins of Jazz-African American music of the
    south
  • Followed _____ and ________
  • Improvisation
  • Seemed to sum up the character of the decade
  • 1929- 2/3 of all air time devoted to jazz

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Jazz musicians
  • Louie Armstrong- trumpet
  • Duke Ellington- piano, composer, band leader
  • George Gershwin- composer
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