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The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine
Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music
- 261 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Merchant of Academe
- Chapter 1 Gifted Boy of the Gilded Age
- Chapter 2 The Columbia Stamp
- Chapter 3 The Gown is the Town
- Chapter 4 Growing Pains at a New Columbia
- Chapter 5 World War I and the French Seduction
- Chapter 6 A Canon for the Rest of us
- Chapter 7 Celebrity Attraction
- Chapter 8 Fame and Loathing on Morningside Heights
- Chapter 9 Raising Juilliard
- Chapter 10 Segues and Second Acts
- Coda
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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