@article{806187,
      author = {Bindas, Kenneth J.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/806187},
      title = {Modernity and the Great Depression : the transformation of  American society, 1930-1941 /},
      abstract = {Order, planning, and reason--in the depths of the Great  Depression, this was what was needed. Kenneth J. Bindas  suggests that this is what modernity offered--a way to make  sense of the chaos all around. In Modernity and the Great  Depression, Bindas offers a new perspective on power of  modernism in early twentieth-century America. In the midst  of a terrible economic, social, and political crisis,  modernism provided an alternative to the response of many  traditional moralists and religious leaders. Promoting a  faith based in reason, organization, and planning,  modernists espoused a salvation that was not eternal but  rather temporal, and, for a generation with so little to  hold onto, eminently practical--one that found virtue in  pleasure and private pursuits. After surveying the  contested definitional terrain of "modernism" and  "modernity," Bindas tracks their course and influence  through government programs as the Civilian Conservation  Corps and the National Youth Administration; in the  American Expositions and World's Fairs that heralded  progress and a better future; on the efforts of women  interior decorators to enhance the modern home; and--thanks  to the proliferation of electricity and radio--on the  popular and high-culture musical recordings and broadcasts  that reinforced a shift away from traditional modes of  performance and reception. -- Provided by the publisher. --  Adapted from the dust jacket.},
      recid = {806187},
      pages = {277 pages :},
}