1. American History Chapter 9: Life at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
II. New Forms of Entertainment

2. Bell Ringer What do you do for entertainment?
Do you spend money on entertainment?
What do you know about the history of Baseball, Basketball, amusement parks, going to movies?
How long have they been popular?

3. Objectives
Discover the new kinds of performances and recreation that Americans enjoyed at the turn of the century.
Find out what people were reading for education and entertainment.
Learn how American music was changing.

4. A) Performances and Recreation
vaudeville: type of inexpensive variety show (1870s)
Comic sketches, humor, magic, jugglers ect
Nickelodeons – converted places to show movies – nickel admission – most films silent
Circus train would make its yearly stop
Steeple chase, Ferris wheel and roller coaster in amusement parks
Baseball leagues, football, and basketball – women road bikes – led to more practical clothing

5. B) What people Were Reading
As more people learned, more read for fun.
Newspapers – entertainment
Yellow Journalism: sensational news coverage – not always true
Pulitzer and Hearst two of the worst
Periodicals increased – Cosmopolitan
Serious novels – Huck Finn – example of local color – describes everyday people very accurate

6. C) Musical Diversions Negro Spirituals – African American folk songs
Ragtime – melodies with shifting accents over a steady, marching-band beat
Jazz – came out of New Orleans – would jazz up common songs – old hymns of slave songs – called the blues – Chicago
Player piano and phonograph – could listen at home

7. Review
What new kinds of performances and recreation did Americans enjoy at the turn of the century?
What were people reading for information and entertainment?
How was American music changing?