The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia
2013; Oxford University Press; Volume: 100; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jahist/jat425
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Music History and Culture
ResumoOver the past few decades scholars from numerous fields have sought to make sense of the multifaceted terrain of the black freedom struggle that flourished across the United States in the mid-twentieth century. In the past twenty-five years historians of the movement have made solid progress explicating the nuances of black insurgency and white resistance that have long defined the contours of the literature on the movement. In recent years scholars have turned their eyes northward in an attempt to reveal the equally complicated racial terrain of American cities above the Mason-Dixon line. Additionally, scholars of media and of urban popular culture have inserted the nexus of mass media, urban history, youth culture, and desegregation squarely into ongoing musings about this most contentious time. In The Nicest Kids in Town Matthew F. Delmont deftly incorporates these disparate bodies of work to craft an insightful, well-written history of the television show American Bandstand and its contested meaning for Philadelphia—the city of its birth—and for a nation amid titanic racial, cultural, and sociospatial changes.
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