Icons of American Popular Culture - From P.t. Barnum to Jennifer Lopez

Informationen zum Autor Robert C. Cottrell Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Traces the evolution of American popular culture. This book includes 'American Dreams: Michael Jordan and Jennifer Lopez', who challenged various sorts of barriers as they became significant cultural icons during the late 1900s and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

Product details

• Authors: Robert C Cottrell, Robert C. Cottrell, Cottrell Robert C.
• Publisher: Sharpe
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2009
• EAN: 9780765622990
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-2299-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; Rock, Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Rock & Pop music, The arts: general issues, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Pop Music, Popular Music, The arts: general topics