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Ashby, LeRoy.

With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 / LeRoy Ashby. - Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, - xi, 648 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-612) and index.

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.

"With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society."--Jacket.

ISBN: 0813123976 9780813123974 0813171326 9780813171326

Standard No.: 9780813123974

LCCN: 2006002558

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA614249 bnb

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Geschichte 1830-2005.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Popular culture--History.--United States
Amusements--History.--United States
Culture populaire--Histoire.--
Spectacles et divertissements--Histoire.--
Amusements.
Civilization.
Popular culture.
Social conditions
Populaire cultuur.
Massamedia.
Amusement.
Massenkultur
Volkskultur




Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Civilization.
United States--Social conditions.
--Civilisation.
--Conditions sociales.
United States.
USA
USA.


Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: E169.1 / .A8525 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 306.4/80973