Popular Entertainment Flashcards
Cinema popularity 1920 figures
1910- more than 8000 cinemas in usa
1930- 303,000
Reasons for growth in cinema
More leisure time + more money
Cheap prices- 5 cents each
Form of escapism
Improved transport- cinema was accessible
Attraction of movie stars
Initial novelty of technology
The jazz age
1920s was known as the jazz age jazz was originally the music of black people better appear to middle-class whites. It had a big impact on women who became flappers.
Slave music
Charles was music which came from slavery. They would sing to increase production and wish for freedom.
Which cities prohibited public performances of jazz
New York and Cleveland
Famous black musicians
Louis Armstrong
Bessie smith
Bessie Smith was involved in a serious car crash. She was taken to a white only hospital. They refuse to treat her because she was black Bessie Smith died.
The gramophone
The gramophone industry sales peaked in 1921, at $106 million
However, by 1922 radio had destroyed the market with its free music
Impact of the radio
The radio reached more than 50 million people. By the end of the 1920s there was a dramatic increase in political and social awareness. Mass production lowered cost of radios and by 1930,40% of household had a radio.
Dancing post ww1
Dances, before the First World War was slow and formal, By the 1920s, it was a much more carefree approach
Dances like the Charleston became more popular
