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With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 / LeRoy Ashby.
Publication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.Description: xi, 648 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0813123976 :
- E169.1 .A8525 2006
Contents:
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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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | E 169.1 .A8525 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:01 - Books | Available | 684548 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-612) and index.
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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