American culture, American tastes
Subtitle: social change and the 20th century
By: Michael Kammen
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781429485685
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE; Popular culture; Social change; Populaire cultuur; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Social life and customs; Aesthetics; Consumption (Economics); Popular Culture; Anthropology; Cultural; Sociale verandering; History; Smaak (cultuur)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-303) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Comming to terms with defining terms; title: Culture democratized: distinction or degradation?; title: Consumerism, Americanism, and the phasing of popular culture; title: Popular culture in transition; title: and in its prime; title: Blurring the boundaries between taste levels; title: Cultural criticism and the transformation of cultural authority; title: The gradual emergence of mass culture and its critics; title: Mass culture in more recent times: passive and/or participatory?; title: Historians and the problem of popular culture in recent times; title: Meetings of the minds? Moving beyond cusutomary categories.