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Icons of American popular culture : from P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez /
This appealing book fills in another dimension by tracing the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, this title provides an intriguing window on the social, economic, and political history of our democracy from the antebellum pe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- A Chronology of Significant Events in the History of American Popular Culture
- One Democratic Showmen
- James Gordon Bennett and P.T. Barnum
- Two Exponents of the Culture of Consumption
- Marshall Field and Horatio Alger Jr.
- Three Stars of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley
- Lillian Russell and Irving Berlin
- Four The Cinematic Artist and the Literary Lion D.W. Griffith and Ernest Hemingway
- Five The "New Woman" and the "New Negro"
- Clara Bow and Bessie Smith
- Six Voices of Radical Culture
- Margaret Bourke-White and Woody Guthrie
- Seven American Heroes
- Hank Greenberg and Edward R. Murrow
- Eight American Rebels
- Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley
- Nine American Icons in a Time of Unrest
- John F. Kennedy and Muhammad Ali
- Ten American Dreamers
- Michael Jordan and Jennifer Lopez.