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Ashby, LeRoy.

With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 / LeRoy Ashby. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2006. - xi, 648 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-612) and index.

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.

ISBN: 0813123976 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813123974 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006002558

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Amusements--History.--United States
Popular culture--History.--United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Civilization.
United States--Social conditions.

LC Class. No.: E169.1 / .A8525 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4/80973