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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Predicate Object
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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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 ⓘ