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

Author/creator Ashby, LeRoy, 1938-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLexington : University Press of Kentucky,
Descriptionxi, 648 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006002558
ISBN9780813123974 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813123976 (hardcover : alk. paper)