POPULAR CULTURE Popular Culture 1900 1919 Jilly Hunt Heinemann LIBRARY Chicago Illinois
Contents What Is Popular Culture Children’s Entertainment Film and Light Entertainment Music The Printed Word Art and Design Wartime Propaganda Fashion Changing Times What Did the 1900s and 1910s Do for Us Timeline Best of an Era Find Out More Glossary Index
What Is Popular Culture What do you enjoy doing in your free time Do you enjoy watching a movie or some television Or perhaps you like reading a good book or flipping through the pages of a magazine to find out about the latest fashions Chances are that a lot of other people like the same movies television programs books or magazines as you This makes these pastimes part of a popular culture The word culture can be used in many ways but in this book we mean culture to be the arts such as movies music books and design Culture can also include elements that are part of everyday life such as travel and the clothes people wear Popular culture really came into being with the introduction of mass communication such as television and radio In the years between 1900 and 1919 mass communication was just beginning This was an exciting time of inventions and technological advances Can you imagine a world without television Well that was our world during this time
