This series delves into the captivating world of popular culture, tracing its evolution across decades. It explores how music, film, fashion, and other art forms reflected and shaped society's changes. Offering an engaging look at what defines mass culture and its impact on our lives. It is essential reading for anyone interested in cultural history and trends.
What did people do for fun in the earliest years of the 20th Century? How did they dress? This book looks at popular culture at the turn of the century and covers the dawn of recording technology, the birth of jazz, early moving pictures, the first daily comics, and much, much more, including how WWI affected the popular culture of the era.
With Disney and Elvis Presley, Teddy Boys and Marilyn Monroe, this was the era where popular culture really came into its own! It was also the era where a TV set might find its home in the living room of an average family. Find out how fashion, music, and movies changed and developed after WWII, and how the Cold War also had an influence.
Thatcher and Reagan, Blair and Clinton, politics played a role in the popular culture of the era, while new technology led to video game arcades popping up anywhere teenagers might be lurking.
The British Invasion, Andy Warhol, Swinging London, the Summer of Love, disco dancing, and polyester, the 1960s and 1970s are the era that most people associate with pop culture. So much changed during these decades - from technological advances such as the Moon landing, to conflicts like the Vietnam War.
Who were the flappers? What were talkies? Who inspired the Harlem Renaissance? This book provides the answers and covers the effect of World War I and the newfound freedom of women on the popular culture of the era. For this was the age of jazz and cabaret, King Kong and Tarzan, and the golden age of radio.