Authors:William H. Young, Nancy K. Young,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: history, culture, popular, american, 1950s
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-10-30
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0313361606
ISBN-13: 9780313361609

Have the 1950s been overly romanticized? Beneath the calm, conformist exterior, new ideas and attitudes were percolating. This was the decade of McCarthyism, Levittowns, and men in gray flannel suits, but the 1950s also saw bold architectural styles, the rise of paperback novels and the Beat writers, Cinema Scope and film noir, television variety shows, the Golden Age of the automobile, subliminal advertising, fast food, Frisbees, and silly putty. Meanwhile, teens attained a more prominent role in American culture with hot rods, rock ’n’ roll, preppies and greasers, and—gasp—ju

Authors:William H. Young, Nancy K. Young,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: music, history, american, war, world, era
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0313338914
ISBN-13: 9780313338915

In the World War II era, big bands and swing music reached the heights of popularity with soldiers as well as friends and loved ones back home. Many entertainers such as Glenn Miller also served in the military, or supported the war effort with bond drives and entertaining the troops at home and abroad. In addition to big band and swing music, musicals, jazz, blues, gospel and country music were also popular. Chapters on each, along with an analysis of the evolution of record companies, records, radios, and television are included here, for students, historians, and fans of the era.Includes a

Authors:William H. Young, Nancy K. Young,
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: historical, cultural, encyclopedia, volumes, america, war, postwar, years, world
Number of Pages: 832
Published: 2010-09-17
List price: $180.00
ISBN-10: 0313356521
ISBN-13: 9780313356520

The two-volume World War II and the Postwar Years in America: A Historical and Cultural Encyclopedia contains over 175 articles describing everyday life on the American home front during World War II and the immediate postwar years. Unlike publications about this period that focus mainly on the big picture of the war and subsequent economic conditions, this encyclopedia drills down to the popular culture of the 1940s, bringing the details of the lives of ordinary men, women, and children alive. The work covers a broad range of everyday activities throughout the 1940s, including movies, radio p

Authors:William H. Young, Nancy K. Young,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: volumes, encyclopedia, cultural, depression, america
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0313335206
ISBN-13: 9780313335204

Everything from Amos n’ Andy to zeppelins is included in this expansive two volume encyclopedia of popular culture during the Great Depression era. Two hundred entries explore the entertainments, amusements, and people of the United States during the difficult years of the 1930s. In spite of, or perhaps because of, such dire financial conditions, the worlds of art, fashion, film, literature, radio, music, sports, and theater pushed forward. Conditions of the times were often mirrored in the popular culture with songs such as Brother Can You Spare a Dime, breadlines and soup kitchens, hom

Authors:William H. Young, Nancy K. Young,
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: music, history, depression, american
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0313332304
ISBN-13: 9780313332302

Prior to the stock market crash of 1929 American music still possessed a distinct tendency towards elitism, as songwriters and composers sought to avoid the mass appeal that critics scorned. During the Depression, however, radio came to dominate the other musical media of the time, and a new era of truly popular music was born. Under the guidance of the great Duke Ellington and a number of other talented and charismatic performers, swing music unified the public consciousness like no other musical form before or since. At the same time the enduring legacies of Woody Guthrie in folk, Aaron Cope

Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Keywords: hardcover, special, shack
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-12-06
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0964729245
ISBN-13: 9780964729247

Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives as the shack on a wintry afternoon and walk back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack’s world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasin

Author: William P. Young
Publisher: Windblown Media
Keywords: shack
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-07-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0964729237
ISBN-13: 9780964729230

Mackenzie Allen Philips’ youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon