Cultural change in the 1920s

Question 1

Name one notable jazz musician.

Answer 1

Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong

Question 2

Name some of the fads that became popular during the 20s in America.

Answer 2

Crosswords, flagpole sitting, dance marathons, roller-skating and rocking horse derbies. Dance crazes included the Charleston and the Black Bottom.

Question 3

What year was the first radio station set up and when were there 500 radio stations?

Answer 3

1920 and by 1922 there were 500.

Question 4

How many people listened to the boxing match between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey?

Answer 4

50 million

Question 5

How much was the typical radio?

Answer 5

$150

Question 6

Between 1923 and 1930 what % of American families had radios and what did sales grow to during this time?

Answer 6

60% and grew from $60 million to $842 million.

Question 7

What were the main uses of radio during the 1920s?

Answer 7

Advertising or sponsorship for example, through programmes like Amos n Andy. Programmes such as westerns, comedies and detective serials. Music, sporting events.

Question 8

How many people could go to the cinema per ay and how many cinemas were there in the 20s?

Answer 8

excess of 10 million in 20,000 cinemas.

Question 9

Name some examples of celebrities that emerged from the cinema of the 1920s

Answer 9

Clara Bow, Theda Bara, Douglas Fairbanks, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin

Question 10

When did the first sound film appear and what was it called?

Answer 10

The jazz singer, 1927.

Question 11

What were the two most popular sports?

Answer 11

Boxing and baseball.

Question 12

Outline the black owned baseball league.

Answer 12

The Negro National Baseball League, black players would play to mixed crowds. East-west all star game could attract crowds of 30,000. Players had half the salaries of white counterparts and played up to three times a day. were some of the largest black owned businesses in the USA.

Question 13

How many black Americans lived in Harlem in 1930?

Answer 13

165,000

Question 14

What was the idea of the New negro?

Answer 14

The idea of black American militancy, it was the idea that black Americans should not embrace western style culture but celebrate their own. some black Americans even wanted segregation in order to protect themselves.

Question 15

name some examples of black American writers who became known in white America.

Answer 15

Alaine Locke, Claud McKay, Langston Hughes.

Question 16

What was the state of American literature in the 1920s?

Answer 16

It was very disillusioned with the American way of life, writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis were not happy with the state of consumerism and hedonism in the county. Many lived as exiles in Europe where the cost of living was cheaper.

Question 17

What kind of crowds could black American baseball games attract?

Answer 17

30,000

Question 18

What was ‘The New Negro’?

Answer 18

Black Americans who were less tolerant of white people such as Marcus Garvey.

Question 19

What did sceptics say about radio?

Answer 19

Invisible energy in the air was dangerous with use of dead birds as evidence

Question 20

How much did radios cost and what % of Americans owned one?

Answer 20

$150 60%

Question 21

What kind of literature did most people enjoy?

Answer 21

Popular fiction with less serious themes and topics and large shift was made towards shorter stories and novels for those who no longer spent as much time reading books