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

Author: Ashby, LeRoy, 1938-

Imprint:Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.

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

Note: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.

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

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