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Dawn of Mass Culture

Dawn of Mass Culture . Mr. Baugh. American Leisure Time. Rise of consumer culture, nationwide advertising, more free time Amusement parks, bicycling, new forms of theater and spectator sports all became escapes from the city. Amusement Parks.

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Dawn of Mass Culture

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  1. Dawn of Mass Culture Mr. Baugh

  2. American Leisure Time • Rise of consumer culture, nationwide advertising, more free time • Amusement parks, bicycling, new forms of theater and spectator sports all became escapes from the city

  3. Amusement Parks • Chicago, NYC and other major cities set aside spaces for outdoors • Small playgrounds and playing fields • Amusement parks such as Coney Island in 1884 • First Ferris wheel in Chicago 1893

  4. Bicycling and Tennis • Susan B Anthony say bicycling as a liberation of woman • Bicycling became a very popular activity • Tennis became increasingly popular as a forum of leisure time

  5. New Ways to Refresh • Hershey chocolate bar fir sold in 1900 • Coca-Cola invented as a cure for headaches in 1886 • Contained Peruvian coca leaves and African Cola nuts

  6. Spectator Sports • Baseball becomes professional sport • Clubs from all across country sprouted up • National League 1876 American League 1900 • African Americans had to make own leagues • 1890 baseball had a published game schedule, official rules and standard diamond size

  7. Mass Culture Spreads • Art galleries, libraries, books and museums spread • Joseph Pulitzer one of early paper leaders emphasized “sin, sex and sensation”

  8. Mass Culture Spreads • William Randolph Hearst was a competitor of Pulitzer • Focused on exaggerated tales of personal scandals, cruelty, hypnotism and conquest of Mars • 1898 both men's papers had more then a million copies a day

  9. Fine Arts • Realism as an art style became popular • Thomas Eakins was one of these • Libraries and art galleries become known as poor mans university by some • Mark Twain inspired other authors • African Americans still discriminated and prohibited to visit many of these

  10. Money, money, money!!! • Urban shopping began to pop up across America • They included jewelry, leather goods, arcades, stationary shops • Retail shopping popped up near public transportation • Modern department store started

  11. Cash is King • Chain stores sold goods for less by buying in quantity and limiting personal service • Rise of advertising in magazines, newspapers, billboards even rocks

  12. Catalogs and RFD • Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck brought retail goods to small towns • 1910 ten million Americans shopped by mail • 1896 US post office introduced rural free delivery(RFD) system that brought packages directly to every home

  13. Questions? • How has mass culture changed? • How has our leisure time changed? • Where does US rank now on leisure time? • How do you spend your free time? • Who had more free time early 1900’s or us now? • Is their similarities from both now and then on what people like to do in free time?

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