The Cultural Front
The Cultural Front
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Summary
A portrait of an era in which artists and intellectuals, activists and workers strove to create a genuinely democratic popular culture. People featured include: Billie Holliday, Duke Ellington, C.L.R. James and John Dos Passos.
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The Cultural Front by Michael Denning
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social movement by creating a cultural front. Disney cartoonists walked picket lines, and Billie Holiday sand 'Strange Fruit' at the left-wing cabaret, Café Society. Duke Ellington produced a radical musical, Jump for Joy, New York garment workers staged the legendary Broadway revue Pins and Needles, and Orson Welles and his Mercury players took their labor operas and anti-fascist Shakespeare to Hollywood and made Citizen Kane. A major reassessment of US cultural history, The Cultural Front is a vivid mural of this extraordinary upheaval which reshaped American culture in the twentieth century.
A truly wonderful piece of history-- Susan Douglas * The Progressive *
An immense achievement ... the most important book yet written on American culture in the age of the CIO. -- Michael Rogin * Journal of American History *
As fresh a synthesis of the distinctive culture of the 1930s and 1940s as you are likely to find anywhere. -- Christopher Benfey * Times Literary Supplement *
One of the 25 best books of 1997. * Voice Literary Supplement *
An immense achievement ... the most important book yet written on American culture in the age of the CIO. -- Michael Rogin * Journal of American History *
As fresh a synthesis of the distinctive culture of the 1930s and 1940s as you are likely to find anywhere. -- Christopher Benfey * Times Literary Supplement *
One of the 25 best books of 1997. * Voice Literary Supplement *
Michael Denning is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the co-director of Yale's Initiative on Labor and Culture. He is the author of Culture in the Age of Three Worlds; The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century; Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America; and Cover Stories: Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller. He coordinates the Working Group on Globalization and Culture, whose collective work includes "Going into Debt," published online in Social Text's Periscope, and "Spaces and Times of Occupation," published in Transforming Anthropology. In 2014, he received the Bode-Pearson lifetime achievement award from the American Studies Association.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781859841709 |
| ISBN 10 | 1859841708 |
| Title | The Cultural Front |
| Author | Michael Denning |
| Series | Haymarket |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 1998-07-17 |
| Number of pages | 594 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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