With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 / LeRoy Ashby.
Ashby, LeRoy.
2006
E169.1 .A8525 2006 (Mapit)
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Title With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 / LeRoy Ashby.
Author Ashby, LeRoy.
ISBN 9780813123974 (alk. paper)
0813123976 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.
Language English
Description xi, 648 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number E169.1 .A8525 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.4/80973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-612) and index.
Linked Resources Table of contents only
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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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