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Summary:

From Mae West through Johnny Carson, Amos 'n' Andy through Beavis and Butt-Head, a celebrated cultural historian chronicles the controversies of American show business and the ongoing attempts to change what we watch, read and hear.

Table of Contents:

• Note to the reader
• Introduction
• The 1800s: protest.censorship.control.
• Down with the movies
• Radio, protest, and scandal
• Nazis, racists, and World War Two
• TV: immoral and filthy and possibly racist
• The Civil Rights Movement and the John Birch Society
• Rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency
• We shall overcome (blackface)
• Dirty movies and drug music
• Women's lib and gay lib and the Frito Bandito
• Extremists versus comedy
• Paul Weyrich: culture warrior
• Punk rock, Frank Zappa, ad the PMRC
• Eddie Murphy, Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay, and their haters
• Shock jocks, talk radio, and the fairness doctrine
• Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and rap music
• To have a cow
• Endless culture wars

• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index.

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Author/Creator:

Nesteroff, Kliph , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Outrageous: a history of showbiz and the culture wars [by Nesteroff, K.]

Subjects:

Performing arts — Social aspects — United States — History and criticism

Time — Social aspects — United States — History

Performing arts — Political aspects — United States — History and criticism

Arts and society — United States — History

Theater and society — United States — History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-297) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PN1590.S6 N47 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781647006372 (electronic bk.)
1647006376 (electronic bk.)
9781419760983 [Invalid]
141976098X [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1409593815

Other Control Numbers:

EBC30941425 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp20560157