Pop Culture in the 1920s
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- Created on: 11-12-17 02:09
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- Pop Culture! in the 1920s
- The Jazz Age
- Very popular music in the speakeasies
- New dances like the Charleston and Black Bottom were faster and more suggestive
- Louis Armstrong was the first jazz soloist and the most influential musician in the genre's history
- Gramophones were introduced
- Radio listeners reached 50 million in the 1920s
- Shopping
- Chain stores opened and women's clothes were mass produced
- Clothing sales went up 427%
- Mail order companies like Sears Roebuck and Co of Chicago made $347 million worth of sales in 1928
- 1/3 Americans bought from them
- Sport
- Growth of spectator sport because of the increasing affluent and leisure time
- 1924, 67,000 watched football
- 1926, 145,000 watched boxing
- There were sports stars
- Babe Ruth
- Jack Dempsey
- Hollywood and the Rise of Cinema
- 40 million tickets sold per week in 1920, rose to 100 million in 1930
- Until 1927, all movies were silent
- 1927, motion picture industry was the fourth largest industry in the country
- Birth of a Nation (1915) was the first blockbuster with a $60 million profit
- There were many famous actors and actresses
- Gloria Swanson
- Charlie Chaplin
- Rudolph Valentino
- They became icons because of the rise in advertising and journalism
- Clara Bow
- Many girls wanted to be like her
- Taught new fashions like smoking
- THE flapper of the 1920s
- The Jazz Age
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