Chautauqua movement

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The Chautauqua movement was a popular late-19th- and early-20th-century American adult education and cultural enrichment movement that combined lectures, music, and religious instruction in traveling and seasonal assemblies.

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instanceOf adult education movement
cultural movement
religious education movement
country United States of America
surface form: United States
declineCause changes in leisure patterns in the United States
rise of motion pictures
rise of radio
endTime mid-20th century
genre popular education
hasGoal adult education
civic education
cultural enrichment
moral uplift
religious education
hasPart Bible study
civic lectures
educational courses
lectures
literary programs
musical performances
religious instruction
seasonal assemblies
Chautauqua movement self-linksurface differs
surface form: traveling Chautauquas
inception 1874
influenced adult education in the United States
public lecture circuits in the United States
influencedBy Sunday schools movement
surface form: Sunday school movement

lyceum movement
language English
locationOfInception Chautauqua, New York
movement Progressive Era
surface form: Progressive Era reform
namedAfter Chautauqua Lake
participant clergy
musicians
reformers
teachers
traveling lecturers
peakPopularity early 20th century
religiousTradition Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
significantPlace Chautauqua Institution
socialRole middle-class cultural uplift
startTime 1870s
targetAudience adults
rural communities
small towns in the United States
typicalActivity dramatic readings
musical concerts
platform lectures
religious services
summer schools

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Chautauqua Institution knownFor Chautauqua movement
historic Chautauqua Hall of Brotherhood movement Chautauqua movement
subject surface form: Chautauqua Hall of Brotherhood
Chautauqua Park follows Chautauqua movement
John Heyl Vincent coFounded Chautauqua movement
John Heyl Vincent notableWork Chautauqua movement
this entity surface form: The Chautauqua Movement
John Heyl Vincent movement Chautauqua movement
Chautauqua movement hasPart Chautauqua movement self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: traveling Chautauquas
Lewis Miller notableWork Chautauqua movement
Lewis Miller movement Chautauqua movement