Entertainment In The 1940s

Before the big evolution of rock and roll, the United States was heavily involved in World War II. In this

Music in the 1930s distracted everyone from what was actually going on. It made the people happy and that is all the leaders of America wanted such as President Roosevelt. However, when the depression seemed to to lift, it eventually got worse. Although, music brought the people to life and together just like it does today. It is important and interesting to learn about the struggles, the happiness, and the music of the Great Depression.

that is why it is known as the golden age. The golden age in theater brought uplifting shows that

The American home front during World War II is recalled warmly in popular memory and cultural myth as a time of unprecedented national unity, years in which Americans stuck together in common cause. World War II brought many new ideas and changes to American life. Even though World War II brought no physical destruction to the United States mainland, it did affect American society. Every aspect of American life was altered by U.S. involvement in the war including demographics, the labor force, economics and cultural trends.

Clothes rationing began two years after food rationing started. During World War II, there was a shortage in material for clothing. The shortage made people to “make due and mend” so that way factory workers could make uniforms, and parachutes for the war (Giullian, 2010). The government gave each person a ration book for clothes. Just like food rationing, when people wanted to buy new clothes, all they had to do was bring their ration book to the store and then buy they clothes they wanted, then you hand over your ration book to the storekeeper and they mark off what the person got in their ration books. The coupon system allowed people to get a new set of clothing each year. Coupons were a different color so they wouldn’t use all their coupons at once. The government told the people when they could use their other coupons. At first, each

Even before the war, music was a large part of entertainment to the American people. In the article Music of the 1860’s, it mentions how people would go to concerts that would be performed by bands to listen to music.

World War II left a deep-rooted impact on the lives of the people that were fighting on the front lines of the war and the ones serving on the home front. The relationships and perspectives of Americans changed after the war from previous believed truths to a modern idea of what life could be, or how their lives have recently transformed. Because of the distinctive oppositions experienced by those of who endured the bleak and torturous years of the war. Moreover, they now understand the circumstances from which they had bravely overcame and conquered.

The rise of posters to encourage American patriotism throughout World War II is an example of using propaganda. During World War II, the troops needed more soldiers, more factory production, more government funds, and less consumption by civilians of crucial war resources. This means that the military needed support from the public, thus leading to propaganda. This was before the extensive use of television, the soundest method to reach the people was radio broadcasts and also print. President Roosevelt used the radio to persuade the public opinion and shortly bright posters began supporting the necessities of the war and work started reaching across the United States.

The North and South soldiers marched off to war, taking with them a love of song that divided them. Music brought back memories of home and family and also entertained and comforted, strengthened the bonds between comrades, helped forge new

It affected all angles of American Life from the economy, college life, and politics. Most of all it made a great impact on music, on rock n’ roll, folk, anti-war, pro-war and pop music. It changed the music industry and how we look and hear music in this present time. During the war music gave

Rationing is something that happened in World War 2. Rationing is a fixed allowance of provisions or food back in World War 2. American people made different sacrifices so that the soldier, sailors, or civilians can have something during the shortage. Rationing happened in America in January 30, 1942 till July 4, 1954.

During World War II, ¨[h]undreds of short films, featurettes, and feature films were produced.¨ (ibblio.org.) The OWI produced 267 of these newsreels between 1942 and 1946. These ¨[n]ewsreels averaged 10 minutes in length and consisted of...events from the home front.¨(WWII UN Newsreels) These newsreels were often shown in movie theaters before the feature film, in order to make people pay attention and be completely ´informed´ about the war. A famous example of a newsreel is D-Day, about a decisive battle where the Allies invaded German controlled Europe in their campaign to liberate

The music that was present in World War II was extremely versatile and happy, which helped keep spirits high among everybody. Styles such as swing, blues, and jazz were popular music styles at the time. By the end of 1941, 96.2% of Americans owned radios. This granted greater access to music and information on the war. This is in contrast to World War I, where most citizens of the world were not as connected to the war through radio. In a way, the mass distribution of music was unifying for the American citizens and troops. However, many African-American musical artists used music to highlight the hypocrisy of the Americans fighting for freedom at that time because there was still a lot of segregation and discrimination in the United States and in it’s military.

Music was very different in the early 1900s from what it is today. Back then music had a more positive impact on people, classical music was the craze. Classical music was listened to those more fortunate to have radios in the times of World War One. Music was different for other citizens and soldiers though, they made their own songs. The songs sung by soldiers were happy yet ever so slightly gloomy, singing about going home, their lovers, and generally what was going on around them.

The development of 1920s and 1930s media and technology was extremely influential upon the period of time immediately after. Media in the 1920-30s and its relevance to the years that followed, focusing on the western world. Through the journalism and writing movements during the era, new technology was exposed to the public and impacted events in the years that followed. The term technology can also apply to machinery, medicine and weaponry; however, none of them corresponded with the changes to media in the 1920s and 1930s. The evolvement of media and technology in the 1920s and 1930s impacted events during the era and later in the Second World War.