TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ashby,LeRoy
TI  - With amusement for all: a history of American popular culture since 1830 
SN  - 0813123976 :
AV  - E169.1 .A8525 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Amusements
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - 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
ER  -