Popular culture and political change in modern America

Author(s)

• Edsforth, Ronald
• Bennett, Larry

Bibliographic Information

Popular culture and political change in modern America

edited by Ronald Edsforth and Larry Bennett

（SUNY series in popular culture and political change）

State University of New York Press, c1991

• : CH
• : PB

Note

Bibliography: p. [177]-211

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book is a collection of essays dealing with the ways in which specific popular entertainment media, mass consumer products, and popular movements affect politics and political culture in the United States. It seeks to present a range of possibilities that reflect the dimensions of the current debate and practice in the field. Some of the contributions to this volume place popular culture media such as films, music, and books in a broad social context, and several articles deal with the historical roots of twentieth-century American popular culture. Popular culture is treated as categorically neither good nor bad, in either political or aesthetic terms. Instead, the essays reflect the editors' convictions that popular culture is simply too important to be ignored by those academics who treat politics and its history seriously. The collection also shows that studying popular or mass culture in a historical way illuminates a variety of possible relationships between popular culture and politics.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Popular Culture and Politics in Modern America: An Introduction Ronald Edsforth 2. Coxey's Army as a Millennial Movement Michael Barkun 3. Progressive Reform, Censorship, and the Motion Picture Industry, 1909–1917 Nancy Rosenbloom 4. The Press and the Red Scare, 1919–1921 Howard Abramowitz 5. Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s Lizabeth Cohen 6. Affluence, Anti-Communism, and the Transformation of Industrial Unionism Among Automobile Workers, 1933–1973 Ronald Edsforth 7. "If a Body Catch a Body": The Catcher in the Rye Censorship Debate as Expression of Nuclear Culture Pamela Steinle 8. The Domestication of Rock and Roll: From Insurrection to Myth Larry Bennett 9. Closing Thoughts: Popular Culture and National Anxiety Larry Bennett Notes Contributors Index

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Details

• NCID: BA13619716
• ISBN:
  • 0791407659
  • 0791407667
• LCCN: 90047621
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Albany
• Pages/Volumes: x, 222 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E169.1
  • DC20 : 306/.0973
  • NDC6 : 361.6
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : United States -- Popular culture -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Politics and culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA13619793