birth of American pop culture

By domf
  • Dime Novels

    Dime Novels

    Cheap adventure and crime stories for working-class readers just like short stories. and now Comic books graphic novels are todays modern equivalent to dine novles
  • Oratory and Lyceum Lectures

    Oratory and Lyceum Lectures

    Oratory and Lyceum lectures are popular speeches, sermons, and public readings. and a modern example is things like podcasts and ted talks
  • Minstrel Show

    Minstrel Show

    Minstrel Shows is shows with variety acts but with racist stereotypes. a modern example is shows like Saturday night live with no racist stereotypes.
  • penny press

    penny press

    The modern Equivalent is daily news. Both the penny press and daily new are trying to get to the mass media to get information out.
  • theaters

    theaters

    there are still theaters to this day but the modern Equivalent to theaters today is things such as movies and tv shows.
  • Popular Entertainment

    Popular Entertainment

    Circuses and strange exhibits where i huge form of pop culture back then. todays modern example is theme parks like
  • Tall Tales

    Tall Tales

    A tall tale is a humorous and exaggerated story. a modern example to this is Stand up comedy and memes.
  • Pseudoscience

    Pseudoscience

    Pseudoscience is fake sciences that claimed to explain character and destiny. A modern example is Horoscopes and astrology apps that claim to predict personality and compatibility.
  • Women’s Domestic Novels

    Women’s Domestic Novels

    Women’s Domestic Novels is about stories about women overcoming struggles and early feminist themes. the modern equivalent is books like the hunger games. becasue it shows struggle