Introduction -- Early popular culture: sources and silences -- Mines, migrant labour and township culture -- The city and the road -- The crowd, the state -- and songs -- The media: globalisation and ...
Prologue : popular culture on the brink -- Blackface, Barnum, and newspaper ballyhoo -- Taming rough amusements, 1840s-1860s -- Building an entertainment industry -- The billion-dollar smile : from ...
Welcome to The Greatest Year in Pop Culture. E!'s new anthology documentary series is revisiting the years that shaped entertainment history, starting with 2003. "The show captured people's ...