# data[].attributes.body
Watch a collection of images depicting Ford's Assembly line, and gain some insight into his ideology. Consider the links to excessive capitalism and mass production; socio-economic 'progress' Huxley was alarmed by.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
An uttana.com Video: Henry Ford and His Mass Production Line

# data[].attributes.body
The mentality of the society is that progress, through invention, is the key goal of mankind. Consumerism and productivity are the purpose of life in Huxley’s industrial utopia.

"It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers”  (Postman, 1993).

# data[].attributes.body
In the 1920s the motorcar came to represent the American dream, by offering independence and adventure.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
An eyeWitness account of the development of the Model T and the Assembly Line.

# data[].attributes.body
Swept the nation and popular culture - consider the birds eye view of the people dancing...

# data[].attributes.headline
An extract... T.S. Eliot 'The Waste Land' (1922)

# data[].attributes.subject
An extract... T.S. Eliot 'The Waste Land' (1922)

# data[].attributes.body
What catalysed humanity's fall ? What were the impacts of the first great war ? Eliot's disjointed, Modernist composition echoes a deep, dark undercurrent and reveals humanity's despair and disillusionment. How may this link to Mass Hysteria and the shifts in Popular Culture of the era ?

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Jazz Age Social Dancing ("The Modern Dances") | Mass Historia

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
The most common misconception however is our tendency to assume that everyone, regardless of age, social status, ethnicity or geography was dancing the latest fad youth dance of the moment: be it the Charleston, the Black Bottom, Collegiate Shag or Lindy Hop.

# data[].attributes.headline
1920's Party - Dancing at the Famous Tower Ballroom

# data[].attributes.subject
1920's Party - Dancing at the Famous Tower Ballroom

# data[].attributes.body
The rise of popular music in the 1920's & 1930's; couples danced together in formal (and more sexualised) rituals. * This, and other forms of dance, provide rich insight to the contemporary context Huxley is building on.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
1920's Party - Dancing at the Famous Tower Ballroom

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
1927 footage and 2013 footage of the magnificent Tower ballroom in Blackpool, England. Featuring Alex Mendham and his orchestra. Footage recorded by Jonathan Holmes, Ryan James, and Panachord. Many thanks.

# data[].attributes.headline
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Beautiful and Damned' (1922).

# data[].attributes.subject
F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Beautiful and Damned' (1922).

# data[].attributes.body
an extract...

# data[].attributes.headline
Anita Loos 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1925).

# data[].attributes.subject
Anita Loos 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1925).

# data[].attributes.body
Shifting notions of sexuality, identity, mass culture and value systems.

# data[].attributes.headline
'Private Lives' Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence - Radio Drama

# data[].attributes.subject
'Private Lives' Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence - Radio Drama

# data[].attributes.body
Elyot & Victor were previosly married & divorced... By chance they meet on adjioning hotel baclonies in France when they are both on honeymoons in new marriages. They fall in love again and run away together. ** Representation of glamour, romance, liberated sexual codes, witty fashionable comedy. Understanding this is useful for understanding H.'s mode of satiric representation in BNW.

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence Private Lives

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Private Lives is a play written by Noel Coward, first performed in 1930 on the London stage, starring Adrianne Allen and Laurence Olivier as the supporting characters, Gertrude Lawrence as the female lead (Amanda) and Coward in the lead male role (Elyot). Ex-spouses encounter one another while on their second honeymoon.

# data[].attributes.headline
Eddie Cantor 'Makin Whoopee' (1928-1930).

# data[].attributes.subject
Eddie Cantor 'Makin Whoopee' (1928-1930).

# data[].attributes.body
Popular culture of the time. Note the emphasis on sexual freedom, freedom for women with a culture focused on pleasure. Changing traditions and a representation of class. Note also the clear comments on the nature of marriage/being tied down.

# data[].attributes.headline
Charleston Craze (1925) 'Yes Sir, That's My Baby' - Coon- Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra

# data[].attributes.subject
Charleston Craze (1925) 'Yes Sir, That's My Baby' - Coon- Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.title
Charleston Craze of 1925: Yes Sir, That's My Baby - Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
Yes Sir, That's My Baby : Coon-Sanders Nighthawk Orchestra, Vocal by C.A.Coon, Victor 1925 NOTE: I never have enough of that wonderful Kansas City dance band of the 1920s! I don't know a single recording of them, that could be called "weak" or "failed".

# data[].attributes.body
Consider the titles and lyrics quoted - what do they reflect ?

# data[].attributes.attachment_link.description
July 15th 2012 The first commercially licensed radio broadcast in America went out in 1920. By 1922 there were 600 radio stations in the US. Between 1923 and 1930, 60% of American families purchased radios. Meanwhile as music publishers turned their attention from selling sheet music to making records, phonograph production rose from just 190,000...

# data[].attributes.body
Mass Hysteria, 1920's opulence, shifts in popular culture, sexuality, materialism, pleasure through dance and song; promiscuity of the Roaring 20's and the 30's. Mass production & industrialised pleasure.