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Author Ashby, LeRoy.

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

Imprint Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.48 As34w 2006    ---  Available
Description xi, 648 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
Amusements -- United States -- History.
United States -- Civilization.
United States -- Social conditions.
ISBN 0813123976 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813123974 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLGGC 291988458
YDXCP 2371074
NZ1 10649766

 
    
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