The nicest kids in town
Subtitle: American bandstand and segregation in postwar Philadelphia
By: Matthew F. Delmont
Series: American crossroads -- 32
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520272071; 9780520272088
Subjects: Race relations; Segregation; Minorities on television; American Bandstand (Television program); Civil rights; African Americans; Civil rights movements; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Making Philadelphia safe for "WFIL-adelphia": television, housing, and defensive localism in Bandstand's backyard; title: They shall be heard: local television as a civil rights battleground; title: The de facto dilemma: fighting segregation in Philadelphia public schools; title: From Little Rock to Philadelphia: making de facto school segregation a media issue; title: The rise of rock and roll in Philadelphia: Georgie Woods, Mitch Thomas, and Dick Clark; title: "They'll be rockin' on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, P.A.": imagining national youth culture on American bandstand; title: Remembering American bandstand, forgetting segregation; title: Still boppin' on Bandstand: American dreams, hairspray, and American bandstand in the 2000s; title: Conclusion: everybody knows about American bandstand.