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New Forms of Entertainment. Chapter 9 section 2. Why?. There was more leisure time for people. More money to spend on entertainment More urban nation so looking for things to do. Vaudeville and Minstrel Shows. Most popular live entertainment= vaudeville: inexpensive variety show 1870s - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
New Forms of EntertainmentChapter 9 section 2
Why? There was more leisure time for people. More money to spend on entertainment More urban nation so looking for things to do
Vaudeville and Minstrel Shows
Most popular live entertainment= vaudeville: inexpensive variety show 1870s
Minstrel show- before vaudeville White actors in “black face” (exaggerated makeup) Racial stereotypes Sometimes had actual black performers still in “black
face”
Movies 20th century Competition for vaudeville Great Train Robbery= 1903 Nickelodeons- theaters set up in converted stores or
warehouses. Charged a nickel admission. Short films. Technology allowed for longer movies
Silent films (Charlie Chaplin) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VvKIHsj9ZY
Movie palaces- full orchestra accompaniment
The Circus Annual visits Advance crews come,
fliers Circus train comes, big
top is put up, parade, paid performance
Dream of running away to join the circus
Amusement Parks The trolley technology was used to make amusement
parks Ferris wheel, roller coasters Music, games of skill, vaudeville, beaches, and rides
Sports Boxing, horse racing, BASEBALL, football, basketball Entrepreneurs closed fields and charged admission Leagues and championship games 1869- Cincinnati Red Stockings Players were paid 1870s 1880s football formed from rugby Basketball= American
Women Sports Bicycling Got rid of corsets
and changed to shirtwaists
Basketball for women in college “women’s rules”
Ice skating, tennis, gymnastics, swimming
Still had to dress appropriately
Newspapers Read for entertainment now. New machinery allowed for whole
lines of text to be printed Different sections (sports, comics,
women’s pages, Sunday editions etc.)
Competition between newspapers = try to find interesting sometimes gross details about things to sell more papers
Yellow journalism-sensational news coverage to sell more papers
Magazines 1879 Congress lowered postal
rates Helpful articles, fiction,
advertising Stories that appealed to
American ideals Rags to riches through hard
work, cheerful attitude Gave working class hope
Popular Fiction Rags to riches Adventures “dime novels” Educated readers read more serious things Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn People got to explore other parts of the country
through the books
The Negro Spiritual A series of concerts in 1871
that introduced African American religious folk songs (spirituals) to white audiences.
Saved the Fisk University Fisk Jubilee singers (former
slaves or children of slaves) toured the US, England, and Europe
American art form, NOT seen as a purely African American one
Ragtime and Jazz Ragtime originated among black musicians in the
South and Midwest 1880s Maple Leaf Rag- song that became popular and
spread jazz all over the country http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57DCa6cboHA&feature=fvst
Jazz = New Orleans “Jazzed up” versions of familiar melodies (hymns or
blues songs) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMLOKhhRqNo
Music at Home People could listen to music without making it
themselves Player piano- paper roll was “played” by wooden
fingers to reproduce the music recorded on the roll. Foot pedals required no skill from the player
Phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison 1877 Played music and became very popular
Spread music and created hits and stars Music business