Radios Impact in the 1920’s Do you wish you heard the first radio station broadcast in America? In the book “The Great Gatsby”, by F.Scott Fitzgerald was influenced by radio in the period of the 1920’s. In his book, radio is an illusion of Fitzgerald’s opinion calling the 1920’s the Jazz era. Radio was a big influence on Americans in the 1920’s. It helped people to communicate and share ideas. Radio provided Americans a source of entertainment that they could share ( McDougal Littell 1). In the mid-1920’s, a typical radio set cost about $150 ( McDougal Littell 1). Wealthy people were able to buy these kind of radios, but crystal radios allowed many Americans to join the radio craze in the 1920s because …show more content…
This specialized station made some studios go on live and have a higher and better audience (McDougal Littell 1). Having this new technology made U.S radio sales jump up to $60 million in 1923 (McDougal Littell 1). Radio had a big impact and helped soldiers during wars by informing them. The popularity of radio and astounding growth all over the world increased during wars. (Michael Harshman 34). The production consisted of light music regularly interrupted by news reports, because of all this wars and information that radio stations were trying to …show more content…
During the 1920’s, radio and music were heard all over the cities and in every house in America. Music and radio impacted every part of American’s life by how each hosters in parties had their own bands or even their own pianist. Fitzgerald says “Have Klipspringer play the piano for me, Klipspringer turned around on the bench and started to play the piano unhappily for gatsby and they guests” 99. It is showed how music was important and by how listening live music on radios made artist go on live without being in