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America S Taste 1851
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Author : Textbook Publishers
language : en
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Release Date : 2003-01-01
America S Taste 1851 written by Textbook Publishers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with categories.
America S Taste 1851 1959
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Author : Marjorie Longley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
America S Taste 1851 1959 written by Marjorie Longley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with United States categories.
America S Taste 1851 1959
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Author : Marjorie Longley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
America S Taste 1851 1959 written by Marjorie Longley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with United States categories.
The cultural events of a century reported by contemporary observers in the pages of the New York Times.
American S Taste 1851 1959
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Author : Marjorie Longley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
American S Taste 1851 1959 written by Marjorie Longley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
America S Taste
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Author : Marjorie Longley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960-01-01
America S Taste written by Marjorie Longley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960-01-01 with categories.
The Lively Arts
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Author : Michael Kammen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1996-03-21
The Lively Arts written by Michael Kammen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
He was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Irving Berlin, and F. Scott Fitzgerald--and the enemy of Ezra Pound, H.L. Mencken, and Ernest Hemingway. He was so influential a critic that Edmund Wilson declared that he had played a leading role in the "liquidation of genteel culture in America." Yet today many students of American culture would not recognize his name. He was Gilbert Seldes, and in this brilliant biographical study, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen recreates a singularly American life of letters. Equally important, Kammen uses Seldes's life as a lens through which to bring into sharp focus the dramatic shifts in American culture that occurred in the half-century after World War I. Born in 1893, Seldes saw in his lifetime an astonishing series of innovations in popular and mass culture: silent films and talkies, the phonograph and the radio, the coming of television, and the proliferation of journalism aimed at mainstream America in such venues as Vanity Fair, The Saturday Evening Post, and Esquire. (His monthly column in Esquire was called "The Lively Arts.") Seldes was more than a witness to these changes, however; he was the leading champion of popular culture in his time, and a skilled practitioner as well. Kammen, the first scholar to enjoy access to Seldes's unpublished papers, illuminates his immense influence as the earliest cultural critic to insist that the lively arts--vaudeville, musical revues, film, jazz, and the comics--should be taken just as seriously as grand opera, the legitimate theatre, and other manifestations of high culture. As he traces Seldes's remarkable evolution from an acknowledged aesthete and highbrow to a cultural democrat with a passion for the popular arts, Kammen recaptures the critic's prescience, wit, and generosity for a newly expanded audience. We witness Seldes's triumphs and travails as managing editor of The Dial, the most influential literary magazine of its time, and read of New York's endlessly feuding publications and literary rivalries. Kammen offers wonderfully detailed accounts of The Dial's introduction of "The Wasteland" in its November 1922 issue; Seldes's review of Ulysses for The Nation, one of the first (if not the very first) to appear in the U.S.; and the complete story of the writing, publication, and critical reception of The Seven Lively Arts, Seldes's most influential book. And Kammen also covers Seldes's astonishingly versatile later career as a freelance writer (on every conceivable subject), historian, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, radio scriptwriter, the first program director for CBS Television, and the founding dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. One of popular culture's earliest and most eloquent champions, Seldes was nonetheless publicly worried as early as 1937 that the popularity of radio, film, and television would mean the demise of the "private art of reading." By 1957 he was warning that "with the shift of all entertainment into the area of big business, we are being engulfed into a mass-produced mediocrity." At a time when many thoughtful Americans despair of popular culture, The Lively Arts revisits the opening salvos in the ongoing debate over "democratization" versus "dumbing down" of the arts. It offers a penetrating and timely analysis of Gilbert Seldes's pioneering conviction that the popular and the great arts must not only co-exist but enrich one another if we are to realize the innovation and intensity of American culture at its best.
American Popular Music And Its Business
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Author : the late Russell Sanjek
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1988-07-28
American Popular Music And Its Business written by the late Russell Sanjek and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-07-28 with Music categories.
Volume two concentrates exclusively on music activity in the United States in the nineteenth century. Among the topics discussed are how changing technology affected the printing of music, the development of sheet music publishing, the growth of the American musical theater, popular religious music, black music (including spirituals and ragtime), music during the Civil War, and finally "music in the era of monopoly," including such subjects as copyright, changing technology and distribution, invention of the phonograph, copyright revision, and the establishment of Tin Pan Alley.
Cassell S Illustrated Exhibitor
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862
Cassell S Illustrated Exhibitor written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with Art categories.
A comprehensive illustrated summary of what was on exhibit at the 1862 International Exhibition in London. Includes a list of British prize recipients at front.
The Record Of The International Exhibition 1862
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Author : International Exhibition of 1862 (LONDON)
language : en
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Release Date : 1862
The Record Of The International Exhibition 1862 written by International Exhibition of 1862 (LONDON) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with categories.
Theatre Culture In America 1825 1860
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Author : Rosemarie K. Bank
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-01-28
Theatre Culture In America 1825 1860 written by Rosemarie K. Bank and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-28 with Drama categories.
A study of pre-Civil War American theatre.