Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-612) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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With Amusement for All is a sweeping interpretative history of American popular culture. Providing deep insights into various individuals, events, and movements, LeRoy Ashby explores the development and influence of popular culture -- from minstrel shows to hip-hop, from the penny press to pulp magazines, from the NBA to NASCAR, and much in between. By placing the evolution of popular amusement in historical context, Ashby illuminates the complex ways in which popular culture both reflects and transforms American society. He demonstrates a recurring pattern in democratic culture by showing.
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Title
With amusement for all.
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0813123976
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Amusements-- United States-- History.
Popular culture-- United States-- History.
Culture populaire-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
Spectacles et divertissements-- États-Unis-- Histoire.
Amusement.
Amusements.
Civilization.
HISTORY-- United States-- General.
Massamedia.
Massenkultur
Nöjesliv.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.