The Nicest Kids in Town : American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia /

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"American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Delmont, Matthew F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
American Bandstand (Television program)
Segregation.
Race relations.
Minorities on television.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
HISTORY > United States > General.
PERFORMING ARTS > Television > History & Criticism.
Minorites à la television.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Segregation > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Civil rights movements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century.
Segregation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 20th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Making Philadelphia safe for "WFIL-adelphia": television, housing, and defensive localism in Bandstand's backyard
  • They shall be heard: local television as a civil rights battleground
  • The de facto dilemma: fighting segregation in Philadelphia public schools
  • From Little Rock to Philadelphia: making de facto school segregation a media issue
  • The rise of rock and roll in Philadelphia: Georgie Woods, Mitch Thomas, and Dick Clark
  • "They'll be rockin' on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, P.A.": imagining national youth culture on American bandstand
  • Remembering American bandstand, forgetting segregation
  • Still boppin' on Bandstand: American dreams, Hairspray, and American bandstand in the 2000s
  • Conclusion: everybody knows about American bandstand.

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