Bibliograph

With amusement for all, a history of American popular culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby

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With amusement for all, a history of American popular culture since 1830, LeRoy Ashby

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-612) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

With amusement for all

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

63136406

Responsibility statement

LeRoy Ashby

Review

"With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society."--Jacket

Sub title

a history of American popular culture since 1830

Table Of 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

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