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Icons of American popular culture from P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez
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Title
Icons of American popular culture [electronic resource] : from P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez / Robert C. Cottrell.
ISBN
9781782680512 (online)
9780765622983 (cloth : alk. paper)
076562298X (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2010 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2013.)
Physical Description
1 online resource (15 entries) : 1 image, digital files.
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Summary
This appealing book fills in another dimension by tracing the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, this title provides an intriguing window on the social, economic, and political history of our democracy from the antebellum period to the present.
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Credo reference.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 16, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction
A Chronology of Significant Events in the History of American Popular Culture
One Democratic Showmen - James Gordon Bennett and P.T. Barnum
Two Exponents of the Culture of Consumption - Marshall Field and Horatio Alger Jr.
Three Stars of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley - Lillian Russell and Irving Berlin
Four The Cinematic Artist and the Literary Lion D.W. Griffith and Ernest Hemingway
Five The "New Woman" and the "New Negro" - Clara Bow and Bessie Smith
Six Voices of Radical Culture - Margaret Bourke-White and Woody Guthrie
Seven American Heroes - Hank Greenberg and Edward R. Murrow
Eight American Rebels - Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley
Nine American Icons in a Time of Unrest - John F. Kennedy and Muhammad Ali
Ten American Dreamers - Michael Jordan and Jennifer Lopez.
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