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Author:

Ashby, LeRoy.

Title:

With amusement for all : a history of American popular culture since 1830 / LeRoy Ashby.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xi, 648 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Popular culture--United States--History.
Amusements--United States--History.
United States--Civilization.
United States--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-612) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9780813123974 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813123976 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006002558

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

HUAX887 -- Southwestern Community College Library - Creston (Creston) — HUAX887

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)