THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
1920S AMERICAN CULTURE
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Since radio broadcasts reached large audiences, many Americans listened to the same music, programs, and ads. People also heard news reports about other states. These shared experiences helped unite them as Americans.
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Since radio broadcasts did not exist, many Americans listened to music, programs, and heard news reports about other states from friends.
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Since radio broadcasts reached small audiences, many Americans did NOT listen to the same music, programs, and ads. These shared experiences did not unite them as Americans.
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Since radio broadcasts reached large audiences due to the internet, many Americans listened to the same music, programs, and ads. People also heard news reports about other states.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Neither illiteracy nor even a busy schedule impeded radio’s success-one could now perform an activity and listen to the radio at the same time. This unprecedented reach made radio an instrument of social cohesion as it brought together members of different classes and backgrounds to experience the world as a nation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Radio signaled a major shift in how Americans communicated. Once radios became widespread and affordable, they connected people in ways never before possible. By the 1920s, a few decades after Marconi’s first broadcast, half of urban families owned a radio. More than six million stations had been built.
Detailed explanation-3: -Radio drew the nation together by bringing news, entertainment, and advertisements to more than 10 million households by 1929. Radio blunted regional differences and imposed similar tastes and lifestyles. No other media had the power to create heroes and villains so quickly.
Detailed explanation-4: -Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt adopted radio as a communication tool when the medium was so new no one was certain what place it would find in American culture. Radio was an unknown force, and it came right into people’s homes and spoke to them intimately. It seemed to have the potential for both good and evil.