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Why Is Mass Culture Important In The 1920s

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The 1920s marked the birth of a new social and political age, with the countries overall wealth more than doubling during the decade, introducing more recreational uses for money, and the amount of people living in urban areas outnumbering that of rural areas. For the first time in America, people were becoming more interconnected with each other, shown through national interest in the same goods, the same music, the same dance techniques, and even the same slang. This “Mass Culture” led to many new things in the 1920s, such as “The Jazz Age”, which gave many a chance to express themselves artistically with wholesale approval, and the new role given to women in America. However, not every part of the 1920s was so grand. One of the most devastatingly

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