| Description |
312 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-297) and index. |
| Contents |
Note to the reader -- Introduction -- The 1800s: protest.censorship.control. -- Down with the movies -- Radio, protest, and scandal -- Nazis, racists, and World War Two -- TV: immoral and filthy and possibly racist -- The Civil Rights Movement and the John Birch Society -- Rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency -- We shall overcome (blackface) -- Dirty movies and drug music -- Women's lib and gay lib and the Frito Bandito -- Extremists versus comedy -- Paul Weyrich: culture warrior -- Punk rock, Frank Zappa, ad the PMRC -- Eddie Murphy, Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay, and their haters -- Shock jocks, talk radio, and the fairness doctrine -- Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and rap music -- To have a cow -- Endless culture wars -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
From Mae West through Johnny Carson, Amos 'n' Andy through Beavis and Butt-Head, a celebrated cultural historian chronicles the controversies of American show business and the ongoing attempts to change what we watch, read and hear. |
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Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Time -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
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Performing arts -- Political aspects -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Arts and society -- United States -- History.
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Theater and society -- United States -- History.
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Performing arts.
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Time.
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Art and society -- United States.
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Theater -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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| ISBN |
9781419760983 (hardcover) |
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141976098X (hardcover) |
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