Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia
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| ISBN: | 0520272080
9780520272088
9781280111501
128011150X
9780520951600
0520951603
9780520272071
9780520272088
0520272072
9786613520692
6613520691
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Matthew F. Delmont brings together major themes in American history-civil rights, rock and roll, television, and the emergence of a youth culture-as he tells how white families around American Bandstand's studio mobilized to maintain all-white neighborhoods and how local school officials reinforced segregation long after Brown vs. Board of Education. The Nicest Kids in Town powerfully illustrates how national issues and history have their roots in local situations, and how nostalgic representations of the past, like the musical film Hairspray, based on the American Bandstand era, can work as impediments to progress in the present."--
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| Other form: | Print version: Delmont, Matthew F. Nicest kids in town. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520272071
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| Standard no.: | 9786613520692
40020606694
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