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= **__Radio and Music of the 1920's__** = By, Allison Diamond

The 1920's was a new year for invention, and new beginnings. It was a period of amazing changes and innovation. It was also a decade of entertainment, where people had fun dancing and listening to music. The Roaring 20's was a decade of social harmony because of all the new inventions to keep people happy and alive. People wasted most of their days listening to the radio that had just come out, or go to the club where they could socialize, dance, drink, and listen to the extraordinary music that was played in the 1920s.

-By the mid-1920s, jazz was being played in dance halls and roadhouses and speakeasies all over the country. Early jazz influences found their first mainstream expression in the music used by marching bands and dance bands of the day, which was the main form of popular concert music in the early twentieth century. media type="youtube" key="QJSdk44gWIE" width="411" height="341" align="left"

-Public dance halls, clubs, and tea rooms opened in the cities. Strangely named black dances inspired by African style dance moves, like the shimmy, turkey trot, buzzard lope, chicken scratch, monkey glide, and the bunny hug were eventually adopted by the general public. The cake walk, developed by slaves as a send-up of their masters' formal dress balls, became the rage. White audiences saw these dances first in vaudeville shows, then performed by exhibition dancers in the clubs.





- Radio provided a cheap and convenient way of conveying information and ideas. The first broadcasts consisted of primarily news and world affairs. Later in the decade, radios were used to broadcast everything from concerts and sermons to "Red Menace" ideas.

- Once radio signals could be transmitted and received with improved clarity around 1920, the idea of public radio began to take hold in America. The first public radio broadcasting station opened in Pittsburgh, 1922. It was an instant success; listeners would sit around the radio listening to everything that was broadcasted. As a result many more radio stations popped up during the 20s, some even over night.

media type="youtube" key="gqxrpBbD5CA" width="382" height="315" - The radio was certainly one of the most important inventions of the 1920s, because it not only brought the nation together, but it brought a whole new way for people to communicate and interact.

- Cow Cow Davenport was one of the earliest boogie-woogie pianists. - Bessie Smith was the greatest and most influential classic blues singer of the 1920s. During her heyday, she earned upwards of $2000 per week, a queenly sum in the 20s.

-The Grand Ole Opry originally known as the WSM Barn Dance, made its inaugural broadcast on November 28, 1925

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-Radio Stations were mushrooming across the United States in the 1920s. In March of 1922, the Atlanta Journal opened up WSB in Atlanta, the first radio station in the south.



-King Oliver is a legend in Jazz history. As a trumpet player, he was strongly influenced by Buddy Bolden whom he imitated