Robert C. Cottrell

Icons of American Popular Culture

From P.T. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780765622990
• ISBN-10: 0765622998
• Artikelnr.: 27876454

Autorenporträt

Robert C. Cottrell

Inhaltsangabe

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;