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Specatator sports grew in popularity as the media increased Athletes sociatial status. Athletes became as influentioal as celebrities and came to be used as market faces for cunsumer products and were looked at as modelistic figures in society. Players such as Babe Ruth turned the game of baseball into a more offensive game which was more attractively viewed by the public. The media configureation also created ''heroes'' in other sports such as college football.
Women became more liberal with cigerett smoking, sexual exsperimentation, and college educations and athletics. Womens overall moral became more similar to that of mens. Sex became less and less reserved for marriage.
Louis Armstrong was one of the first jazz players of his tiem with a unique and unmistakable sound. He used his own individual imaginiation to turn his music into art. Many other muscians of this time followed after his example such as Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. Jazz originated in New Orleans.
Radio brought new competetion for the record industy but cultural dependancy created a new form of american pop culture that reached out to different ethnic markets and regions fo the united states. Eventually the readio and record industy combined, creation a mixture of jazz, blues, and country music. Movie stars, radio personalities, sports heroes, and popular muscians beacme the model figures in a media driven society. They symbols of society ad their lives portrayed through TV interviews, radio roadcasts and newspapers stories which allowed the average person deep insight to their everyday lives, in essence allwing them to relate. This created an ideal image which became the dream for the common American.
Like radio and and movies, the phonopfaph came into in scene in the 1920's. By using wax cylenders, the pnonograph cold both record and play music. Later introduced during WW1, the perminently grooved discs became more popular. The sucess of records transformed music as the major source in households.
The New Mass Media
Steck, DeCarlo, Zeplowitz, Frank, Kesaris
