With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 / LeRoy Ashby.
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TextPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.Description: xi, 648 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0813123976 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813123974 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 306.4/80973 22
- E169.1 .A8525 2006
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قاعة الثقاقات الاجنبية - الدور الثالث | المكتبة المركزبة الجديدة - جامعة القاهرة | 306.480973 A823 Am.W. (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 01000110192552000 |
American Window.
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.
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