With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 /
LeRoy Ashby.
Bok Engelsk 2006 LeRoy. Ashby
| Utgitt | Lexington : : University Press of Kentucky, , c2006.
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| Omfang | xi, 648 p. : : ill. ;
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| Opplysninger | 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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| ISBN | 0813123976 (hardcover : alk. paper). - 9780813123974 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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