| Description |
xi, 648 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [587]-612) and index. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History.
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Amusements -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Civilization.
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United States -- Social conditions.
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| ISBN |
0813123976 hardcover alkaline paper |
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9780813123974 hardcover alkaline paper |
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