With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 /

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With Amusement for All is a sweeping interpretative history of American popular culture. Providing deep insights into various individuals, events, and movements, LeRoy Ashby explores the development and influence of popular culture -- from minstrel shows to hip-hop, from the penny press to pulp maga...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ashby, LeRoy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006.
Temas:
Popular culture > United States > History.
Amusements > United States > History.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Spectacles et divertissements > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Amusements
Civilization
Popular culture
Social conditions
Massenkultur
Volkskultur
Populaire cultuur.
Massamedia.
Amusement.
Populärkultur.
Nöjesliv.
Populärkultur, USA.
United States > Civilization.
United States > Social conditions.
États-Unis > Civilisation.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States
USA
Förenta staterna.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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