11/3/08

-bloodsports became popular aswell as dogfighting, cockfighting, and bareknuckled boxing which ended when one opponent could not fight any longer.
-theatre's growing popularity with British actors.
-enthusiastic audience however rather aggressive.
-working class preferred entertainment were some novels (dime novels)
-minsteal shows (performers acted like slaves)
-very racist yet popular in the north (1840-1880)
-entertainment differennce between North and South/ city and rural:
cities had more to offer
-northern middle class developed a cosmopolitain culture.
the South distrusted outsiders and defended neighborhoods
-drinking, wrestling, hunting, and dancing were popular and very inexpensive.
-they told stories, participated in religious revival camps, barn raisings, hunting, fishing, corn-husking, and helping out in the harvest.
-birthday parties were also a big event.
-books were more available in the north.
-commercial entertainment in the South was centered around showboats which brought entertainment and theatre with it.
-New Orleans was known for its horse racing.
North and South had different views of God and Death.
Southern Church peoples think it was God's will that they died or God's punishment.
-Northern people had more sentimental views.
-deaths meant triumphs and there were more elaborate cemetaries.