The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine [electronic resource] : Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music /
Chaddock, K.author.
This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Merchant of Academe; 1 Gifted Boy of the Gilded Age; 2 The Columbia Stamp; 3 The Gown Is the Town; 4 Growing Pains at a New Columbia; 5 World War I and the French Seduction; 6 A Canon for the Rest of Us; 7 Celebrity Attraction; 8 Fame and Loathing on Morningside Heights; 9 Raising Juilliard; 10 Segues and Second Acts; Coda; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.
Erskine, John, 1879-1951.
America—History.
Social history.
Education—History.
United States—History.
History, Modern.
Higher education.
History of the Americas.
Social History.
History of Education.
US History.
Modern History.
Higher Education.