Icons of American popular culture : from P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez

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Icons of American popular culture : from P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez

Robert C. Cottrell

M.E. Sharpe, c2010

  • : pbk
  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of two individuals who are in some way emblematic of their times, this provides a window on the social, economic, and political history of US democracy from the antebellum period to the present.

目次

  • Chapter One Democratic Showmen, James Gordon Bennett, P.T. Barnum
  • Chapter Two Exponents of the Culture of Consumption, Marshall Field, Horatio AlgerJr.
  • Chapter Three Stars of Vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley, Lillian Russell, Irving Berlin
  • Chapter Four The Cinematic Artist and the Literary Lion, D.W. Griffith, Ernest Hemingway
  • Chapter Five The "New Woman" and the "New Negro", Clara Bow, Bessie Smith
  • Chapter Six Voices of Radical Culture, MargaretBourke-White, WoodyGuthrie
  • Chapter Seven American Heroes, Hank Greenberg, Edward R. Murrow
  • Chapter Eight American Rebels, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley
  • Chapter Nine American Icons in a Time of Unrest, John F. Kennedy, Muhammad Ali
  • Chapter Ten American Dreamers, MichaelJordan, JenniferLopez

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