HIS 132 - American Popular Culture since 1900

Institution:

Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

Traces the era in which American popular culture consolidated mass art/entertainment forms such as Hollywood films, jazz, rock and roll, rock and rap, radio and television programming, tabloid journalism, computer gaming, Internet entertainment. Topics include modern technologies, tensions between art and commerce, the role of outsider groups, especially Jews and African Americans, as well as gays,in the making of American pop culture, popular portrayals of the powerful and the marginal, the "culture of celebrity," the mainstreaming of erotica and pornography, and the extent to which popular culture caused, as opposed to reflected, changes in American social norms. Prerequisite of HIS 4 is required.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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