The Resource With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby
With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby
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The item With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- With Amusement for All is a sweeping interpretative history of American popular culture. Providing deep insights into various individuals, events, and movements, LeRoy Ashby explores the development and influence of popular culture -- from minstrel shows to hip-hop, from the penny press to pulp magazines, from the NBA to NASCAR, and much in between. By placing the evolution of popular amusement in historical context, Ashby illuminates the complex ways in which popular culture both reflects and transforms American society. He demonstrates a recurring pattern in democratic culture by showing
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 648 pages, [24] pages of plates)
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780813141329
- Label
- With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830
- Title
- With amusement for all
- Title remainder
- a history of American popular culture since 1830
- Statement of responsibility
- LeRoy Ashby
- Subject
-
- Amusements
- Amusements -- United States -- History
- Civilization
- Culture populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- History
- Massamedia
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
- Populaire cultuur
- Popular culture
- Amusement
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Social conditions
- Spectacles et divertissements -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- United States
- United States -- Civilization
- United States -- Social conditions
- États-Unis -- Civilisation
- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
- Popular culture -- United States -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- With Amusement for All is a sweeping interpretative history of American popular culture. Providing deep insights into various individuals, events, and movements, LeRoy Ashby explores the development and influence of popular culture -- from minstrel shows to hip-hop, from the penny press to pulp magazines, from the NBA to NASCAR, and much in between. By placing the evolution of popular amusement in historical context, Ashby illuminates the complex ways in which popular culture both reflects and transforms American society. He demonstrates a recurring pattern in democratic culture by showing
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ashby, LeRoy
- Dewey number
- 306.4/80973
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E169.1
- LC item number
- .A8525 2006eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Popular culture
- Amusements
- United States
- United States
- Culture populaire
- Spectacles et divertissements
- États-Unis
- États-Unis
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- HISTORY
- Amusements
- Civilization
- Popular culture
- Social conditions
- United States
- Populaire cultuur
- Massamedia
- Amusement
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- HISTORY
- Label
- With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-612) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocm70289049
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 648 pages, [24] pages of plates)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813141329
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
-
- 22573/ctt2hfw5r
- 8711E2D9-98EB-4661-A641-C87CDD180311
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o70289049
- (OCoLC)70289049
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-612) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- ocm70289049
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 648 pages, [24] pages of plates)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780813141329
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
-
- 22573/ctt2hfw5r
- 8711E2D9-98EB-4661-A641-C87CDD180311
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o70289049
- (OCoLC)70289049
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Amusements
- Amusements -- United States -- History
- Civilization
- Culture populaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- General
- History
- Massamedia
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Cultural Policy
- Populaire cultuur
- Popular culture
- Amusement
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Social conditions
- Spectacles et divertissements -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- United States
- United States -- Civilization
- United States -- Social conditions
- États-Unis -- Civilisation
- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
- Popular culture -- United States -- History
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