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Popular modernity in America : experience, technology, mythohistory

Title: Popular modernity in America : experience, technology, mythohistory / Michael Thomas Carroll.
Author: Carroll, Michael Thomas, 1954-
Publication: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.

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Description

xvii, 237 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 popular culture as inherently liberatory or subtly oppressive, arguing instead for the triadic relationship of experience, technology, and myth, each of which has an active role to play in how we interact with popular culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

SUNY series in postmodern culture

Uniform Title

SUNY series in postmodern culture.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-229) and index.

Contents

American technospace and the emergence of popular modernity -- The disembodied voice: Coughlin, Crosby, and other Crooners -- Temporality and commercial culture: nostalgic entertainments -- Visuality: the "scope regime" of popular modernity -- Vocality, visuality, alterity: black American cultural production -- The narrative imperative.

ISBN

0791447138
9780791447130
0791447146
9780791447147

LCCN

00020429

OCLC

ocm43328894
43328894
SCSB-1140046

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library