| Description |
1 online resource (15 entries) : 1 image, digital files. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A Chronology of Significant Events in the History of American Popular Culture -- One Democratic Showmen - James Gordon Bennett and P.T. Barnum -- Two Exponents of the Culture of Consumption - Marshall Field and Horatio Alger Jr. -- Three Stars of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley - Lillian Russell and Irving Berlin -- Four The Cinematic Artist and the Literary Lion D.W. Griffith and Ernest Hemingway -- Five The "New Woman" and the "New Negro" - Clara Bow and Bessie Smith -- Six Voices of Radical Culture - Margaret Bourke-White and Woody Guthrie -- Seven American Heroes - Hank Greenberg and Edward R. Murrow -- Eight American Rebels - Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley -- Nine American Icons in a Time of Unrest - John F. Kennedy and Muhammad Ali -- Ten American Dreamers - Michael Jordan and Jennifer Lopez. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
This appealing book fills in another dimension by tracing the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, this title provides an intriguing window on the social, economic, and political history of our democracy from the antebellum period to the present. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on title page of print version. |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History.
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Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
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Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.
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National characteristics, American.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 076562298X 9780765622983 (DLC) 2009010385 xxxiv, 243 p. : ill. |
| ISBN |
9781782680512 (online) |
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9780765622983 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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076562298X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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