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

2. 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

3. Popular Forms of Entertainment
Vaudeville- live variety acts that travel from town to town

4. Movies-The Silver Screen
1903 Great Train Robbery
,000 nickelodeons 5 cent theaters
Silent films w/ caption cards starring
Charlie Chaplin
Douglas Fairbanks
Lillian Gish

5. Circus Trains bring the circus across the country A several day affair
Promote
Parade
Perform

6. 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

7. Sports Baseball most popular sport
Cincinnati Red Stockings first pro team.
Boston
St. Louis
Detroit

8. Other Popular Sports
Boxing
Tennis
Basketball
Horse Racing
Football

9. Bicycles Gives women more freedom It changes the way they dress
Begin dating w/out chaperones

10. Reading Newspapers Improvements in printing make them affordable
Yellow Journalism- Sensational news stories

11. Newspapers Pulitzer New York World Hearst New York Journal
Joseph Pulitzer

12. Magazines McClures Cosmopolitan Munsey’s
feature short stories and articles

13. Fiction Dime Novels- Cheap (affordable) Horatio Alger Mark Twain
Henry James
Edith Wharton
Upton Sinclair

14. Music
Concerts
Operas
Dances
Home pianos

15. 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

16. At Home Entertainment Player piano Phonograph
Spread popular music, made performers stars nationwide