New Forms of Entertainment Chapter 9 Section 2 New Forms of Entertainment
Changes in America More leisure time More $$ spent on entertainment and recreation Sports are popular Snack foods introduced 10 hour work days, ½ day on Saturday
Popular Forms of Entertainment Vaudeville- live variety acts that travel from town to town
Movies-The Silver Screen 1903 Great Train Robbery 1908- 8,000 nickelodeons 5 cent theaters Silent films w/ caption cards starring Charlie Chaplin Douglas Fairbanks Lillian Gish
Circus Trains bring the circus across the country A several day affair Promote Parade Perform
Amusement Parks Trolleys make them possible Coney Island in NY Hague Park outside of Jackson Steeplechase *vaudeville Ferris Wheel *dances Roller coaster *beaches Music Games
Sports Baseball most popular sport Cincinnati Red Stockings first pro team. Boston St. Louis Detroit
Other Popular Sports Boxing Tennis Basketball Horse Racing Football
Bicycles Gives women more freedom It changes the way they dress Begin dating w/out chaperones
Reading Newspapers Improvements in printing make them affordable Yellow Journalism- Sensational news stories
Newspapers Pulitzer New York World Hearst New York Journal Joseph Pulitzer
Magazines McClures Cosmopolitan Munsey’s feature short stories and articles
Fiction Dime Novels- Cheap (affordable) Horatio Alger Mark Twain Henry James Edith Wharton Upton Sinclair
Music Concerts Operas Dances Home pianos
New Music Negro Spirituals- Religious folk songs (saves Fisk University, benefit concert) Ragtime- accents over a steady marching beat *Jazz- New Orleans Fisk Jubilee Singers
At Home Entertainment Player piano Phonograph Spread popular music, made performers stars nationwide