The Cambridge History of American Popular Culture

The Cambridge History of American Popular Culture is a comprehensive treatment of American popular culture. It is organized around the major time frames for defining American history, as well as genres of popular culture and, pivotally, around historical instances where American popular culture has been a key transformative agent shaping American history, values, and society. This ambitious book by a team of scholarly experts from across the humanities offers unique historical breadth and depth of knowledge about the ongoing power of commercial entertainment. The Cambridge History of American Popular Culture is a fresh, original and authoritative treatment of the aesthetics, producers and artists involved in American popular culture, a phenomena that exerts tremendous cultural power both domestically and internationally.

Author: Lauren Rabinovitz
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/25/2026
Pages: 748
Weight: 2.28lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.27w x 1.86d
ISBN: 9781009522403