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000806187 1001_ $$aBindas, Kenneth J.,$$eauthor.
000806187 24510 $$aModernity and the Great Depression :$$bthe transformation of American society, 1930-1941 /$$cKenneth J. Bindas.
000806187 264_1 $$aLawrence, Kansas :$$bUniversity Press of Kansas,$$c[2017]
000806187 300__ $$a277 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c24 cm
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000806187 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000806187 4901_ $$aCultureAmerica
000806187 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-257) and index.
000806187 5050_ $$aIntroduction: Order, planning, and reason -- The end of times: defining modernity in the 1930s -- A new model army: the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, and modernity -- Salvation awaits: expositions, world's fairs, and modernity -- A woman's place, a family's hearth: interior decorators and modernity -- Sounds for the Modern Age: music as celebration of modernity -- Epilogue: new directions and challenges: the postwar divide.
000806187 520__ $$aOrder, 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.$$cProvided by publisher.
000806187 650_0 $$aSocial change$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000806187 650_0 $$aDepressions$$y1929$$zUnited States.
000806187 650_0 $$aNew Deal, 1933-1939.
000806187 650_0 $$aCivilization, Modern.
000806187 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xCivilization$$y1918-1945.
000806187 830_0 $$aCulture America.
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