The Genesis of Mass Culture

1. Introduction
John Springhall

2. The American Museum: Barnum’s Great Leap Forward
John Springhall

3. The Freak Show Business: “Step Right up, Folks”
John Springhall

4. Blackface Minstrelsy: The First All-American Show
John Springhall

5. The Americanized Circus: Barnum & Bailey in Excelsis
John Springhall

6. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West: American Culture Crosses the Atlantic
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7. Vaudeville I: Rise and Decline of an Emergent Mass Culture
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8. Vaudeville II: Cultural Exchange, Departure, and Transmutation
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9. Conclusion
John Springhall

Keywords: History, US History, Modern History, History of the Americas, Social History, Cultural History