TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ashby,LeRoy
TI  - With amusement for all: a history of American popular culture since 1830 
SN  - 0813123976
AV  - E169.1 .A8525 2006
U1  - 306.4/80973 22
PY  - 0000///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Amusements
KW  - Culture populaire
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Spectacles et divertissements
KW  - fast
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Populaire cultuur
KW  - gtt
KW  - Massamedia
KW  - Amusement
KW  - Massenkultur
KW  - gnd
KW  - Volkskultur
KW  - sao
KW  - sfit
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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