With Amusement for All A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830

Name: With Amusement for All A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830
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ISBN: 9780813123974

ISBN-10: 0813123976

ISBN-13: 9780813123974

Edition: 2006

Authors: LeRoy Ashby

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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 how groups and individuals on the cultural and social periphery have profoundly altered the nature of…

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Publication date: 5/12/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 712
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.90" tall
Weight: 2.486



Preface


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


Notes


Bibliography


Index