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Entertainment nation : how music, television, film, sports, and theater shaped the United States / edited by Kenneth Cohen and John W. Troutman ; foreword by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ; director's note by Anthea M. Hartig ; principal photography by Jaclyn Nash.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- National Museum of American History, author.
- Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem, 1947- author of foreword.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States--History--Catalogs.
- Popular culture.
- Americana--Catalogs.
- Americana.
- Arts and society--United States--Catalogs.
- Arts and society.
- National Museum of American History (U.S.)--Catalogs.
- National Museum of American History (U.S.).
- United States.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- How music, television, film, sports, and theater shaped the United States
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- "U.S. history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Harmony And Discord
- Signal And Noise
- Comedy And Tragedy
- Gaining And Losing Ground
- Heroes And Villains.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an ever-changing selection from its collection of theater, music, sports, movie and television objects held by the National Museum of American History under the banner of "Entertaiment Nation" exhibited since December 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Lader Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781588347244
- 1588347249
- OCLC:
- 1319010466
- Publisher Number:
- 99992495861
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