Entertainment During The 1920's

The entertainment of the 1940s consisted of Hollywood, radio personalities and the musicians, all in the benefit of the country in the war. By the 1940s radio had become a mass medium, meaning that the radio was a device that had a mass audience.

Throughout American history and the 1900’s, fads have been a hugely successful form of self expression. From fashion, to recreation, to dumb and sometimes dangerous things that youths do, fads are a way to distract from the troubles of the world and find something else fun to do.

The 1920s is notorious for being a good time, with its reputation of being full of fun parties and extravagant living. Those wealthy enough were able to enjoy that along with all the other changes in American culture. In the 1920s the use of installment buying, credit, and stock market investments became a typical part of life. Technology that improved home life, like vacuums and radio, were desired, and these shifts in culture added to the stigma that good times would continue forever. The American people were not aware that common habits in the 1920s would lead to the Great Depression in the 1930s, during which unemployment reached over 25%, the economy struggled, and the fun times ended. The Great Depression was caused by experts that encouraged

Mass media during the 1920s united the nation and created an economic boom in new areas of entertainment and leisure. As technology advanced, new forms of communication and entertainment began to rise. A variety of new entertainment like radio, magazines, and movies with sound became common and popular. Over 700 films were produced each year, over 100 million radios were in use, and LIFE magazine had over 250,000 readers in the year 1920 alone. The demand of new forms of media began to increase due to the thirst to live vicariously through the personas they see and hear all around them. Mass media in the 1920s united the country, controlled individual consumption, and propelled American consumerism.

The Roaring Twenties started in North America and spread to Europe as the effects of World War I diminished. In Europe, the years following the First World War (1919-1923) were marked by a deep recession. Europe spent these years in rebuilding and coming to terms with the vast human cost of the conflict. Unlike in the aftermath of World War II, the United States did little to try to rebuild Europe. Instead, it took an increasingly isolationist stance (Answers, 2006).

The Roaring Twenties brought many cultural changes to the United States and Europe, which have had many lasting effects. The roles of women changed tremendously and alcohol became banned, but people found many loopholes, also many new inventions and ways of life came about.

The videos I viewed all show the different events that happened in the 1920s. In conclusion historians can develop a clear idea of what the circumstances were surrounding the 1920s and how it affected history, the people and the places surrounding it. Historians also use photos and videos to help them see a picture of how things really were during a specific time and at a specific location. Historians can then take all these and consider them alongside other relevant information they have, and share and discuss information they found with other historians, who then can go on and share what they’ve learned with others. Therefore listening to noises or sounds it gives the historians an idea of what was happening at the time and the surrounding

The 1920s were prosperous times for Canada and many other countries around the world. Canadian economy, thanks to its vast storage of natural resources, was striving to the extent that the 1920s was nicknamed “The Roaring 20s”. The 1920s era not only provided Canada with an amazing trade relationship, but also led to the development of different movements & inventions that shook the world and shaped the way we live today. These impacting events include artwork, social change, women’s rights, prohibition, the Model T car, the radio, silent film, medical advances and the telephone. Though all these phenomena worked together to make the 20s “roar”, but in particular women’s rights, medical advances and the telephone made the most prominent impact on the past and present society.

The 1920’s in America was a time of experimentation, economic prosperity, and political conservatism. After World War I, the United States experienced the Great Migration, Prohibition, and immigration restrictions. It was a time for internal conflicts to arise because of bewildering change.

The radio in the 1920s was a very big part of lives of Americans. The radio had become sort of like a ´norm´, where almost everyone had one. According to American Radioworks, more than 40% of American household owned radios, and then later in doubled to 80% a decade later. Americans soon depended on the radio for everything. The radio typically coated Americans $150 according to 1913-1928: WW1 & Prohibition.To finding out what's going on in the US and to just passing free time. Surveys found that listeners in the 1930s spent an average of more than four hours a day listening to radio broadcasts(American Radioworks). This means the radio shaped society on how they spent their time and money, and how the radio took over their lives.

The Roaring 20’s was a time of political change, prohibition, and the movement of people from farms to cities. All of this happened very fast and it was a time of great change for the developing United States.

After the golden years known as, The Roaring Twenties,the U.S experienced the greatest economic crisis in human history known as the Great Depression.People struggled just to get by,actors especially .The Federal Theater Project (FTP), was a government funded program to help struggling performers find work.Though the idea of such a program was revolutionary,it failed, and ended a few years after its creation. The FTP ultimately didn’t establish what it set out to do.

American history has always fascinated the learners with interesting facts, and although history happened many years ago, but until today the American history is still a hot potato to talk about. And in all the periods that America went through, the 1920’s, which are known as the Roaring Twenties, were the first step of America to walk into the modern world like we know today. So, let’s go back in time for us to see the very beginning of the age of dramatic social and political changes in the United States of America.

Radio broadcast started in the 1920’s though not many people heard it,the public however could hear it well and was filled with radio’s. Many families would gather around the radios at night for their own entertainment. The first radio used and bought was the crystal radio to make these very simple radios you needed a piece of lead galena, crystal, and a cat whisker these radios were not very productive because people could make them at home if they wanted to. By 1922, 600 radio stations popped up in the United States. The very first radio station in Chicago in 1921 by Westinghouse Electric and a manufacturing company was KYW. It played apra music 6 days a week and became a favorite in Chicago. After apra singing started getting old they

The 1920s was a huge time period for the United States. Modern technology such as automobiles, radios, and advertisement had taken America by storm. Rural areas were on the decline. American cities had attracted not only rural and urban citizens, but also people from all over the world. In America during the 1920s, citizens struggled with accepting other races and ethnicities into their widely populated country.