Popular modernity in America
Subtitle: experience, technology, mythohistory
By: Michael Thomas Carroll.
Series: SUNY series in postmodern culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Popular culture -- United States -- History.; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- United States.; Technology -- Social aspects -- United States.; Arts, American -- 20th century.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-229) and index.