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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)
John F. Kasson
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| #33859 in Books | 1978-08-01 | 1978-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.47 x.36 x6.96l,.45 | File type: PDF | 128 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Pictures of the past|By Julie Ratcliffe|This little book is mostly a collection of vintage photographs of Coney Island. Kasson lightly sketches the origins of the various parks and the boardwalk and lets the photos do the talking. The interesting thing about Coney Island is that it catered to middle- and working classes. The pictures show ordinary people (under represented in h|||“This is what a history of popular culture should be: a delightful account of a fascinating subject and a serious contribution to our understanding of major transition in American culture.” ―John G. Cawelti, University of Chicago|“B
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgi...
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