Essay On Battling The Great Depression

Battling the Great Depression During the time of the Great Depression, society and pop culture started to change immensely. The Great Depression caused much of America to loose hope, their jobs, and to loose much of their possessions and money. The decline of the American economy caused many people to stay in the confides of their homes and to spend as little money or no money at all. With the state of the economy during the 1930’s many people started to look at leisure time as a waste of money, but some activities still flourished, such as certain films, the recording business, and even football. The depression area brought about much curiosity among society, such as the fascination with violence, unsettling character, and even sexuality in movies and film (Ashby 223). Film companies started to show riskier shots of both men and women in order to gain fascination among the audiences. During this time period society would watch anything that could possibly give them hope for their current society. Ashby described the fascination with horror films, “they may even have found messages of conflict” (225). Many people started to look at the monster in a negative way, but the town would always be saved from the monster by the heroic …show more content…
Jack Kapp and his record company, Brunswick Records, first started the record revolution. Kapp first started his own company, “his store on the city’s West Sides, where many of his customers came from the nearby African American neighborhood” (Ashby 234). To catch his clientele he first started to cut the price of records, and then he started to become a scout and producer to create even more records. With the price of records so cheap, families would be able to purchase multiple records for just a few bucks. This type of cheap entertainment was just what society needed to take their minds off of the Great