concert saloon

Examples of concert saloon in the following topics:

• Saloon Culture

  • The concert saloon was an American copy of the English music hall, and the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • The concert saloon, an American copy of the English music hall, was the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • Along with liquor, concert saloons featured particularly tawdry, low-end theater and the new fad of "waiter girls," dancers who sometimes doubled as prostitutes.
  • Interior View of Phalon's New Saloon, in the St.
  • Summarize the influence of saloons on American popular and entertainment culture

• Vaudeville

  • Vaudeville had many influences, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque.

• Cheap Amusements

  • Vaudeville had many influences, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque.

• Progressivism for Whites Only

  • It especially identified big-city bosses, working with saloon keepers and precinct workers, as the culprits in stuffing the ballot box.
  • The solution to purifying the vote included prohibition (designed to close down the saloons), voter registration requirements (designed to end multiple voting), and literacy tests (designed to minimize the number of ignorant voters).
  • Although racism manifested in many forms throughout the Progressive Era, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) mounted perhaps one of the most organized and concerted efforts of xenophobic legislation against non-white immigration during this period.

• The Prohibition Movement

  • It was promoted by the "dry" crusaders, a movement led by rural Protestants and social Progressives in the Democratic and Republican parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."

• Tenements and Overcrowding

  • But the saloon, whose open door you passed in the hall, is always there.
  • Hull House also held concerts that were free to everyone, offered free lectures on current issues, and operated clubs for both children and adults.

• The Retreat from Progressivism

  • Many (but not all) Progressives supported prohibition in order to destroy the political power of local bosses based in saloons.

• Domestic Discontent with the War

  • Old-Stock moralism was aggressively focused on banishing from the face of the Earth things they perceived to be sources of evil, primarily saloons, through acts such as Prohibition, a legal ban on selling and consuming alcohol.

• Elements of Reform

  • Activists were mobilized by the highly effective Anti-Saloon League.
  • Timberlake (1963) argues the dries sought to break the liquor trust, weaken the saloon base of big-city machines, enhance industrial efficiency, and reduce the level of wife beating, child abuse, and poverty caused by alcoholism.
  • The Anti-Saloon League was formed in 1893, uniting activists from different religious groups.
  • In 1913, the Anti-Saloon League first publicly appealed for a prohibition amendment.

• The Idea of Economic Citizenship

  • Other groups, such as the Prohibitionists, opposed immigration because it was a base of support for the saloons.