The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine

Shaping Mass Culture Through Great Books and Fine Music
2012. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-230-11775-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chaddock, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Merchant of Academe Gifted Boy of the Gilded Age The Columbia Stamp The Gown is the Town Growing Pains at a New Columbia World War I and the French Seduction A Canon for the Rest of Us Celebrity Attraction Fame and Loathing on Morningside Heights Raising Juilliard Segues and Second Acts

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Elise Chaddock is a professor in the College of Education, University of South Carolina, and the author of numerous published works on the history of American higher education. Among her previous books include: Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College; (with Susan Schramm) A Separate Sisterhood: Women Who Shaped Education in the Progressive Era; and (with Carolyn Matalene) Vital Signs in Charleston, Carolina Voices, and College of Charleston Voices.