Books in A History of Popular Culture series

What did people do for fun in the earliest years of the 20th Century? How did they dress? What were they reading? This book looks at popular culture at the turn of the century and covers the dawn of recording technology, the birth of jazz, early "moving pictures", the first daily comics, and much, much more, including how WWI affected the popular culture of the era.

The British Invasion, Andy Warhol, Swinging London, the Summer of Love, disco dancing, and polyester, this is the era that most people think of when they think of “pop culture.” So much changed during these decades―from technological advances such as the moon landing, to conflicts like the Vietnam War. These changes all had a great impact on pop culture.

What was "skiffle"? How did technology change the look and design of everyday things during the 1940s and 1950s? With Disney and Elvis Presley, Teddy Boys and Marilyn Monroe, this was the era where popular culture really came into its own! It was also the era where a TV set might find its home in the living room of an average family. Find out how fashion, music, and movies changed and developed after WWII, and how the Cold War also had an influence.