TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kammen,Michael G
TI  - American culture, American tastes: social change and the 20th century 
AV  - E169.K15.A447 1999 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Social change
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 1 (pages 263-303) and index; Coming to terms with defining terms --; Culture democratized: distinction or degradation? --; Consumerism, Americanism, and the phasing of popular culture --; Popular culture in transition--and in its prime --; Blurring the boundaries between taste levels --; Cultural criticism and the transformation of cultural authority --; The gradual emergence of mass culture and its critics --; Mass culture in more recent times: passive and/or participatory? --; Historians and the problem of popular culture in recent times --; Meetings of the minds? Moving beyond customary categories; 2
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