Year of manufacture: 2007
Author: William H. Young, Nancy K. Young
Genre: Cultural history of the twentieth century / History of the United States
Publisher: Greenwood Press
ISBN: 0-313-33520-6; 978-0-313-33520-4
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 669
Everything from Amos and Andy to Zeppelins is included in this encyclopedia of popular American culture of the Great Depression. The authors in two hundred articles explore entertainment, fun and Americans, entertained and entertained in the difficult 1930s. Despite (or perhaps because of) such difficult economic conditions, the world of art, fashion, cinema, literature, radio, music, sports, and theater has come to the fore. The spirit of the time was reflected in the queues of the unemployed, soup kitchens, homeless people, bootleggers and popular songs such as "Brother Can You Spare a Dime". Icons of the era, like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, George and Ira Gershwin, Gene Harlow, Billy Holiday, the Marx Brothers, Roy Rogers, Frank Sinatra, and Shirley Temple attracted some. "Dracula", "Gone with the Wind", "It Happened One Night" and "Superman" distracted others from their daily worries. Fads and games - a chain of letters, riddles of puzzles, dance marathons, miniature golf, "Monopoly" - entertained the rest, while musicians sang the blues most often. The work of Nancy and William Young will be of interest to students and students, as well as to all inquisitive readers seeking a brief overview of the popular American culture of the 1930s, and those wishing to learn about Art Deco, Big Bands, Bonnie and Clyde, Chicago World Fair, Walt Disney , Duke Ellington, "Grand Ole Opry," jitterbug, kidnapping Lindbergh, Little Orphan Annie, Olympic games, operetta, quizzes, vaudeville, westerns and much more.
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