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With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830
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by LeRoy Ashby
Sales Rank: 199350
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$25.59
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 688 pages
Published by: University Press of Kentucky May 12, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0813123976
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0813123974
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 2.1 inches
Weighs: 2.5 pounds
USA Today
"Given all the amusements discussed in this book, one wonders how Americans ever have time for work. This fascinating exploration is more than a listing, though, as it relates the importance of amusement to cultural change This book is more than amusing; it is instructive."
Product Review
Library Journal (* starred review) : Nosingle author has tackled popular culture with so much breadth and depth andmanaged to strike a balance between the popular and scholarly approaches. Ashby''s absorbing and hugely informative study will appeal to a wideaudience. Highly recommended. -- Library Journal (* starred review)
Michael Allen, author of Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination : I know of no other book that provides the same kind of documented, engaging, and lively narrative about American popular culture as With Amusement for All . -- Michael Allen, author of Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination
Pacific Northwest Quarterly : "It is not taken for granted that Super Bowls and reality talent shows are discussed around water coolers everywhere the morninf after they occur. What should be more common is the use of such entertainment supernovas by historians interested in understanding what makes American culture tick. Thanks to Ashby''s fascinating book, this tast has become substantially easier."-- Roderick Frazier Nash, Pacific Northwest Quarterly
Reader Reviews
There are, inevitably, some sources of popular culture not included- the drinking den, from gin palace to wine bar, for instance. But the tensions between what the upper classes think is proper culture ("you have to be THIS smart to go on this ride" still applies to the visual arts - the less there truly is to it, as most ideas expressed in art could be found in a paperback novel, the most snooty the claims made about it. It's all about shifting luxury goods ands flattering the monied that they have "taste")) and what The People really like (Fox, Murdoch help us) are exposed as constant over three centuries. I am a rock music obsessessive, and learned stuff about Elvis I never knew - what a social-sexual rebel he really was, with his Tony Curtis style eye makeup. I took this fattie on vocation, as opposed to my usual Stephen King, and read every page, and the indexes!!!)
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