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Sp. Ch 26 prt 3 774-780 The Expansion of Mass Culture and Mass Leisure I. Berlin, the capital of Germany, became the entertainment center of Europe w/its theaters, cabarets, cinemas, and jazz clubs. A. The Roaring Twenties was especially known for its dance crazes. II. So popular was jazz, a musical form that had originated w/African American musicians in the US, that the 1920s also became known as the Jazz Age. Radio and Movies I. A series of technological inventions in the late 19thc had prepared the way for a revolution in mass communications. Especially important was Marconi?s discovery of ?wireless? radio waves. A. Permanent broadcasting facilities were constructed in the US, Japan, and Europe during 1921 and 1922, and mass production of radios also began.