The Cambridge companion to modern American culture
By: edited by Christopher Bigsby.
Contributors: Bigsby, C. W. E.
Series: Cambridge companions to culture
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780521841320; 9780521601092
Subjects: Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.; United States -- Study and teaching.
Other titles: Modern American culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: what, then, is the American? / Christopher Bigsby; title: 2. The American century / Godfrey Hodgson; title: 3. The regions and regionalism / Richard H. King; title: 4. Immigration to the United States in the twentieth century / Roger Daniels; title: 5. Religion in the United States in the twentieth century: 1900-1960 / Peter W. Williams; title: 6. Shifting boundaries: religion and the United States: 1960 to the present / Wade Clark Roof and Nathalie Caron; title: 7. The Hispanic background of the United States / Nicolás Kanellos; title: 8. African Americans since 1900 / Werner Sollors; title: 9. Asian Americans / James Kyung-Jin Lee; title: 10. Women in the twentieth century / S.J. Kleinberg; title: 11. Queer America / Robert McRuer; title: 12. The United States, war, and the twentieth century / Kenneth P. O'Brien; title: 13. The culture of the Cold War / Stephen J. Whitfield; title: 14. Secret America: the CIA and American culture / Hugh Wilford; title: 15. Vietnam and the 1960s / John Hellmann; title: 16. New York City and the struggle of the modern / Eric Homberger; title: 17. Music: sound: technology / William Brooks; title: 18. African American music of the twentieth century / Paul Oliver; title: 19. Hollywood cinema / Walter Metz; title: 20. Popular culture / Paul Buhle; title: 21. Theatre / Brenda Murphy; title: 22. Society and the novel in twentieth-century America / Emory Elliott; title: 23. "Preferring the wrong way": mapping the ethical diversity of US twentieth-century poetry / Tim Woods.