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Entertainment nation : how music, television, film, sports, and theater shaped the United States

Title
Entertainment nation : how music, television, film, sports, and theater shaped the United States / edited by Kenneth Cohen and John W. Troutman ; foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ; director's note by Anthea M. Hartig ; principal photography by Jaclyn Nash.
Author
National Museum of American History (U.S.), author.
Publication
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2022]

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TextUse in library JFF 23-25Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

Details

Additional Authors
  • Cohen, Kenneth
  • Troutman, John William
Description
271 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
Summary
"U.S. history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture"--
Alternative Title
How music, television, film, sports, and theater shaped the United States
Subject
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) > Catalogs
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.)
  • Popular culture > United States > History > Catalogs
  • Americana > Catalogs
  • Arts and society > United States > Catalogs
  • Americana
  • Arts and society
  • Popular culture
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Catalogs.
  • History.
Note
  • Catalog of an ever-changing selection from its collection of theater, music, sports, movie and television objects held by the National Museum of American History under the banner of "Entertaiment Nation" exhibited since December 2022.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261) and index.
Contents
Harmony and discord -- Broadening and narrowing the signal -- Comedy and tragedy -- Gaining and losing ground -- Heroes and villians.
Call Number
JFF 23-25
ISBN
  • 9781588347244
  • 1588347249
LCCN
2022019744
OCLC
1322443654
Author
National Museum of American History (U.S.), author.
Title
Entertainment nation : how music, television, film, sports, and theater shaped the United States / edited by Kenneth Cohen and John W. Troutman ; foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ; director's note by Anthea M. Hartig ; principal photography by Jaclyn Nash.
Publisher
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2022]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261) and index.
Added Author
Cohen, Kenneth, editor.
Troutman, John William, editor.
Research Call Number
JFF 23-25
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