With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830
LeRoy Ashby
Bok · Engelsk · 2012
| Omfang | xxxix, 648 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Utgave | Paperback edition
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| Opplysninger | Første utgave 2006. - 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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| Dewey | 306.480973 . - 306.0973
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| ISBN | 9780813141077
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