- 280 pages
- English
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About this book
Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of two individuals who are in some way emblematic of their times, this provides a window on the social, economic, and political history of US democracy from the antebellum period to the present.
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Index
Aaron, Hank, xxix
ABC, xxx, 182
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 208
Abortion, xxviii
Abraham Lincoln (1930), 73
Abrams, Creighton, 176
Abrams, Jonathan, xxxiii
Academy Awards, xix
Across the River and into the Trees (Hemingway), 83–84
Actors, 170–71, 173
Actors’ Equity strike, 45
Actresses
film, 88–95, 156–64, 213–16, 217, 218–19, 220, 221
theater, 46–53
Acuff, Roy, 164
Adams, Abigail, 129
Adams, Ansel, 112
Adams, James C., 20
Adams, John, 129
Addams, Jane, 69, 129
Adventures in Music, 124
Adventures of Dollie, The (1908), 64
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), xv
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The (Twain), xiv
Affleck, Ben, 218
African Americans
baseball, xxii, xxix, 140, 176, 194, 212
basketball, xxv, xxxi, 202–13
Black Muslims, xxvi, 176, 177, 190, 194–95, 196, 197
Black Panthers, xxvii, 176, 197
boxing, xxvi, 134, 177, 189–99
Civil War, 10, 68–70
film, 68–70
football, xviii
golf, xxxi, xxxii, 212, 213
New Negro Movement, 86–88, 96–97
politics, xxxiii, xxxiv
race riots, xxvi
segregation, xxiii, xxiv, xxv, 165, 176, 182–83
singers, xviii, 88, 95–104
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A Chronology of Significant Events in the History of American Popular Culture
- Icons of American Popular Culture
- One Democratic Showmen
- Two Exponents of the Culture of Consumption
- Three Stars of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley
- Four The Cinematic Artist and the Literary Lion
- Five The “New Woman” and the “New Negro”
- Six Voices of Radical Culture
- Seven American Heroes
- Eight American Rebels
- Nine American Icons in a Time of Unrest
- Ten American Dreamers
- Index
- About the Author