With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 / LeRoy Ashby.

Author/creator Ashby, LeRoy, 1938-
Format Book
Publication InfoLexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006.
Descriptionxi, 648 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [587]-612) and index.
LCCN 2006002558
ISBN0813123976 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780813123974

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks E169.1 .A8525 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold