For your Table of Contents On page 20 start 2 nd six weeks table of contents: Entertainment in America SPIRAL CHECK WEDNESDAY! VOCABULARY QUIZ FRIDAY!!!!

Entertainment in America at the Turn of the Century Chapter 9: section 2 pg Read & Say Something Person # 2 Starts When finished reading raise your hands for the next part

Inexpensive variety show that 1 st appeared in the 1870’s - Based on ethnic & racial humor 1 of the sources was the minstrel show in which actors wore “black face” (exaggerated caricature of African Americans) Family entertainment: song & dance routines, magic acts, performances by ventriloquists, jugglers and animals “trolley parks” Featured music, games of skill, vaudeville productions & exciting rides Technology of the trolley led to the development of amusement parks Inexpensive excursion from the city Performances by stunt men, entertainers, animals, etc under the big top Circus train – 1872 Became an annual visit Anticipation was built through early flyers, followed by the arrival of the train -People gathered to watch the big top go up, then a parade - followed by the performance. Baseball, boxing, horse racing, football, basketball (only major sport of exclusive American origin) bicycling, tennis, swimming Various groups formed sports clubs – proved to have a large audience for games so entrepreneurs closed stadiums and started charging admission The competition, entertainment Speed & timing of the game

Melodies with shifting accents over a steady, marching – band beat 1899 – a composer wrote “Maple Leaf Rag” which became popular Infectious beat became popular A type of music of black origin Grew out of the culture of New Orleans and traveled North New style Infectious Became the rage Dance clubs a religious song of a kind associated with black Christians of the southern US, and thought to derive from the combination of European hymns and African musical elements by black slaves. The Fisk Jubilee Singers went on a concert tour, introducing white audiences to religious folk songs As it became more popular aquired characteristics of European musical traditions Became identified as an American art form

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Movies The Great Train Robbery released in By 1908, the nation had 8,000 nickelodeons (theaters that charged a nickel for admission) Will develop into full length movies – started as silent films accompanied by a live piano

What people are reading… Newspapers: New typesetting machinery enabled publishers to produce larger and more entertaining publications which greatly increased circulation They also introduced new features: comics, sports sections, women’s pages and Sunday editions Because of high competition editors encouraged more sensational stories to sell more (murder, scandal, corruption) – Yellow Journalism Key people: Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst Newsies trailer:

What people are reading… Magazines: Congress lowered postal rates for periodicals therefore magazine circulation increased Early magazines: McClure’s, Cosmopolitan, and Munsey’s - many of them focused on Horatio Alger’s stories – Rags to riches Popular Fiction: Dime novels, serious novels, novels that satirized the attitudes and practices of the time Key people: Henry James, Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair

Music at home 2 new inventions made it easier to for people to enjoy music without producing it themselves Player piano – a paper roll was “played” by wooden “fingers” to reproduce the music recorder on the roll Phonograph - invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. Signaled the birth of the music industry.

One thing a person could do in 1900 but not in 1865 was a.ride on a train. b.sew a dress. c.play a phonograph. d. read at night.