New Forms of Entertainment 16.2

Performances and Recreation The country begins to show the fruit of its labor through entertainment such as Vaudeville. The Great Train Robbery. The first motion picture movie. (Nickelodeons) Charlie Chaplin and silent films. P.T Barnum/ Ringling Bros. Circuses First Amusement parks. Roller coasters, Ferris Wheels, etc.

                         

Sports Baseball is now the Pastime. Cincinnati Red Stockings were the 1st Walter Camp adopted European Rugby to form Football. James Naismith invents Basketball with a peach basket. Boxing. Boxers didn’t wear gloves and bouts could go 30 rounds. Cycling was a new fad adored by females. “bicycles built for two”

Literature and Music Yellow journalism. Newspapers that often embellished the truth. (tabloids) Huck Finn and other novels soon became the easiest way to kill time. Ragtime and Jazz, both grew out of the south and the Black tradition of music. The player piano, and the phonograph could now bring music into the house without leaving, soon it’ll be the radio