ISBN:
9780813123974
,
0813123976
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 648 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
[Nachdr.]
DDC:
306.480973
Keywords:
Popular culture History
;
United States
;
Amusements History
;
United States
;
United States Civilization
;
United States Social conditions
;
Bibliografie
;
USA
;
Massenkultur
;
Geschichte 1830-2005
Abstract:
Prologue : popular culture on the brink -- Blackface, Barnum, and newspaper ballyhoo -- Taming rough amusements, 1840s-1860s -- Building an entertainment industry -- The billion-dollar smile : from burlesque to vaudeville and amusement parks -- The leisure problem at the turn of the century -- Popular culture and middle-class respectability in the early twentieth century -- Battling the Great Depression -- Building a wartime consensus in the 1940s and 1950s -- Counterpoints to consensus -- Popular culture and 1960s ferment -- Up for grabs : leaving the 1960s -- A pop culture society -- Epilogue : pop culture in a post-9/11 world
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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