Popular modernity in America : experience, technology, mythohistory / Michael Thomas Carroll.
Popular modernity in America : experience, technology, mythohistory / Michael Thomas Carroll.
Popular modernity in America : experience, technology, mythohistory / Michael Thomas Carroll.
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Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
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N306.0973/65
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English
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xvii, 237 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. American Technospace and the Emergence of Popular Modernity -- 2. The Disembodied Voice: Coughlin, Crosby, and Other Crooners -- 3. Temporality and Commercial Culture: Nostalgic Entertainments -- 4. Visuality: The "Scopic Regime" of Popular Modernity -- 5. Vocality, Visuality, Alterity: Black Ame...
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Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2000.
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"Popular Modernity in America examines a broad range of related cultural and technological phenomena - from Bing Crosby to Ice Cube, from the invention of the telegraph to the celebratory heralding of the internet in the 1990s - that have helped shape American popular culture over the past 150 years. Throughout, it avoids the binaries that label po...
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Popular modernity in America : experience, technology, mythohistory / Michael Thomas Carroll.
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SUNY series in postmodern culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-229) and index.
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c2000.
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N306.0973/65
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0791447146 (pb)
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0791447138 (hc)
9780791447147 (pb)
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306.0973
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991013023249702626
