Author: Neil Harris
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
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Author: Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher: George Braziller
ISBN: 9780807605486
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Alan Trachtenberg
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Neil Harris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807605486
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: a Trachtenberg (editor.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Alan Trachtenberg
Publisher: New York : G. Braziller
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Eric Avila
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190200596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of Americans have imagined themselves, their nation, and their relationship to the world and its peoples. This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role of culture in relation to broader social, political, and economic developments. Across the lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as language, region, and religion, diverse Americans have forged a national culture with a global reach, inventing stories that have shaped a national identity and an American way of life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author: Michael Kammen
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307827712
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them. Professor Kammen shows how the post-traditional popular culture that flourished after the 1880s became full-blown mass culture after World War II, in an era of unprecedented affluence and travel. He charts the influence of advertising and opinion polling; the development of standardized products, shopping centers, and mass-marketing; the separation of youth and adult culture; the gradual repudiation of the genteel tradition; and the commercialization of organized entertainment. He stresses the significance of television in the shaping of mass culture, and of consumerism in its reconfiguration over the past two decades. Focusing on our own time, Kammen discusses the use of the fluid nature of cultural taste to enlarge audiences and increase revenues, and reveals how the public role of intellectuals and cultural critics has declined as the power of corporate sponsors and promoters has risen. As a result of this diminution of cultural authority, he says, definitive pronouncements have been replaced by divergent points of view, and there is, as well, a tendency to blur fact and fiction, reality and illusion. An important commentary on the often conflicting ways Americans have understood, defined, and talked about their changing culture in the twentieth century.

Author: Simon J. Bronner
Publisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Robert Sklar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780807605714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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