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Tables of Contents for Popular Culture in American History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Notes on Contributors
x
Series Editor's Preface
xii
Preface: About This Book
xiv
Acknowledgements
xvii
Introduction: The Worldwide Web of Popular Culture
1
9
In the Beginning
10
20
Timeline
10
1
Introduction
10
2
Chapbooks: Reconstructing the Popular Reading of Early America
12
12
Victor Neuberg
Consider the Source
24
5
Excerpts from Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682)
24
5
Suggested Further Reading
29
1
The World of the Stage
30
27
Timeline
30
1
Introduction
30
2
William Shakespeare in America
32
18
Lawrence Levine
Consider the Source
50
6
Excerpt from Representative Men
50
6
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Suggested Further Reading
56
1
The Racy Appeal of the Minstrel
57
21
Timeline
57
1
Introduction
57
4
The Blackface Lore Cycle
61
14
W. T. Lhamon, Jr.
Consider the Source
75
2
Excerpts from Nineteenth-Century Minstrel Shows
75
2
Suggested Further Reading
77
1
Literature for the Million
78
17
Timeline
78
1
Introduction
78
2
The Figure of the Dime Novel in American Culture
80
9
Michael Denning
Consider the Source
89
5
Excerpt from Last of the Great Scouts
90
4
Helen Cody Wetmore
Suggested Further Reading
94
1
The Romance of the Dance Hall
95
34
Timeline
95
1
Introduction
95
2
Dance Madness
97
26
Kathy Peiss
Consider the Source
123
5
Excerpt from Elisabeth Marbury's Introduction to Modern Dancing
124
4
Vernon
Irene Castle
Suggested Further Reading
128
1
Moving Images
129
34
Timeline
129
1
Introduction
129
2
American Motion Pictures and the New Popular Culture, 1893--1918
131
26
Daniel J. Czitrom
Consider the Source
157
5
Excerpts from The Spirit of Youth
158
4
Jane Addams
Suggested Further Reading
162
1
Waves of Selling
163
40
Timeline
163
1
Introduction
163
3
Arguments over Broadcast Advertising
166
35
Susan Smulyan
Consider the Source
201
1
Excerpt from ``Sponsoritis'' (1930)
201
1
Suggested Further Reading
202
1
The Firmament of Stardom
203
31
Timeline
203
1
Introduction
203
2
Fool's Paradise: Frank Sinatra and the American Dream
205
24
Jim Cullen
Consider the Source
229
3
``Why the Americans are so Restless in the Midst of their Prosperity,'' excerpt from Vol. II of Democracy in America
229
3
Alexis de Tocqueville
Suggested Further Reading
232
2
The Age of Television
234
36
Timeline
234
1
Introduction
234
2
The Making of the Sitcom, 1961
236
31
David Marc
Consider the Source
267
2
Excerpts from After All
267
2
Mary Tyler Moore
Suggested Further Reading
269
1
Hip-Hop Nation
270
24
Timeline
270
1
Introduction
270
2
Voices from the Margins: Rap Music and Contemporary Black Cultural Production
272
19
Tricia Rose
Consider the Source
291
2
Excerpts from Ladies First
291
2
Queen Latifah
Suggested Further Reading
293
1
Index
294