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Entertainment nation : how music, television, film, sports, and theater shaped the United States
Title:
Entertainment nation : how music, television, film, sports, and theater shaped the United States
Author:
National Museum of American History (U.S.), author.
ISBN:
9781588347244
Physical Description:
271 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
General Note:
Catalog of an ever-changing selection from its collection of theater, music, sports, movie and television objects held by the National Museum of American History under the banner of "Entertaiment Nation" exhibited since December 2022.
Contents:
Harmony and discord -- Broadening and narrowing the signal -- Comedy and tragedy -- Gaining and losing ground -- Heroes and villians.
Abstract:
"U.S. history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture"-- Provided by publisher.