1. New Forms of Entertainment
Chapter 9: Section 2
New Forms of Entertainment

2. Vaudeville
type of inexpensive variety show that first appeared in the 1870s
comic sketches, song-and-dance routines, magic acts, ventriloquists, jugglers, animals
Sandow lifting his fellow vaudeville performers.

3. Minstrel Show source of vaudeville
featured black and white actors in “blackface” - exaggerated make-up caricaturing African Americans

4. Movies
nickelodeons – theaters set up in converted stores or warehouses that charged a nickel admission
silent, accompanied by a live piano player
Charlie Chaplin

5. The Circus had different stages: advance men promoting
circus train arrives in town
big top goes up
circus parade
circus begins

8. Amusement Parks began with the technology of the trolley
began with the technology of the trolley
mechanical rides like the steeplechase, Ferris wheel, and roller coaster

9. Sports
baseball – first true professional team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings
football – adapted from the European game of rugby
basketball – only major sport of exclusively American origin

10. Women in Sports
played basketball, but it was believed that stiff competition and hard physical exertion was unhealthy for women so they devised “new rules”
shirtwaists – ready-made blouses, that were tucked into shorter or split skirts

11. Newspapers larger and more interesting publications
comics, sports sections, Sunday editions, women’s pages, stories “hot off the wires”, graphic pictures

12. sensational news coverage was known as yellow journalism
publishers urged reporters to discover lurid details of murders, vice, and scandal
sensational news coverage was known as yellow journalism
Nasty little printer's devils spew forth from the Hoe press in this Puck cartoon of Nov. 21, 1888, showing that the evils predated the Yellow press.

13. Magazines McClure’s, Cosmopolitan, and Munsey’s

14. Popular Fiction “dime novels” inexpensive books with a wide readership
local color – type of writing that describes the people and places of particular regions of the United States in accurate detail

15. The Negro Spiritual African American religious folk songs – spirituals
Fisk Jubilee Singers

16. Ragtime and Jazz
ragtime – infectious music featuring melodies with shifting accents over a steady, marching-band beat
“Maple Leaf Rag”
Jazz – originated in New Orleans

17. Music at Home
player piano – paper roll was “played” by wooden “fingers” to reproduce the music recorded on the roll, was activated by foot pedals requiring no skill from the human player
phonograph – popularity started the music business