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The unpredictable past : explorations in American cultural history / Lawrence W. Levine.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: xii, 372 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195082974 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780195082975 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 0195082966 (hard : acid-free paper)
  • 9780195082968 (hard : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E169.1 .L5374 1993
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Contents:
I. Thinking about history. The unpredictable past: reflections on recent American historiography ; The historian and the culture gap -- II. Patterns of African-American culture. Slave songs and slave consciousness: explorations in neglected sources ; "Some go up and some go down": the meaning of the slave trickster ; African culture and U.S. slavery ; The concept of the new Negro and the realities of Black culture ; Marcus Garvey and the politics of revitalization -- III. Towards an understanding of popular culture. William Shakespeare and the American people: a study in cultural transformation ; Jazz and American culture ; Progress and nostalgia: the self image of the nineteen twenties ; American culture and the Great Depression ; Hollywood's Washington: film images of national politics during the Great Depression ; The historian and the icon: photography and the history of the American people in the 1930s and 1940s ; The folklore of industrial society: popular culture and its audiences.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-353) and index.

I. Thinking about history. The unpredictable past: reflections on recent American historiography ; The historian and the culture gap -- II. Patterns of African-American culture. Slave songs and slave consciousness: explorations in neglected sources ; "Some go up and some go down": the meaning of the slave trickster ; African culture and U.S. slavery ; The concept of the new Negro and the realities of Black culture ; Marcus Garvey and the politics of revitalization -- III. Towards an understanding of popular culture. William Shakespeare and the American people: a study in cultural transformation ; Jazz and American culture ; Progress and nostalgia: the self image of the nineteen twenties ; American culture and the Great Depression ; Hollywood's Washington: film images of national politics during the Great Depression ; The historian and the icon: photography and the history of the American people in the 1930s and 1940s ; The folklore of industrial society: popular culture and its audiences.