Arts & Entertainment Fads, Volume 1Here is everything a trivia buff would ever want to know about major American fads in arts and entertainment! Well-documented and provocative, Arts & Entertainment Fads provides information on the fads that have gathered national attention and attracted many followers. Spanning time from the colonization of America to the very latest craze, the 120 entries include Tin Pan Alley, Barbershop Quartet, Betty Boop, James Bond, Charlie Chaplin, Punk Rock, The Charleston, Pop Art, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” 3-D, On the Road, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, “Casey at the Bat,” Tom Wolfe, and Currier & Ives. |
Contents
Answer Songs | 11 |
Barnum | 27 |
Betty Boop | 41 |
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Charlie Chaplin | 71 |
Columbia Comedy Shorts | 87 |
Davy Crockett | 93 |
Dime Novels | 107 |
Optical Toys | 215 |
Pantomime | 221 |
Pasticcio | 227 |
Pete Smith Specialties | 233 |
Pop Art | 241 |
Psychedelic Posters 249 | 249 |
Punk Rock | 255 |
First Blood Part II | 261 |
Farrah FawcettMajors | 121 |
Mary Hartman Mary Hartman | 135 |
Hopalong Cassidy | 149 |
Peter Max | 163 |
Minstrel Shows | 177 |
The Monkees | 183 |
Monster Movies | 189 |
Movie Serials | 197 |
Nickelodeons | 203 |
Ninja Movies | 209 |
The Rocky Horror Picture Show | 267 |
The San Francisco Sound | 273 |
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band | 285 |
Silly TV Superheroes | 287 |
Striptease | 303 |
Swing Music | 317 |
J R R Tolkien | 331 |
Underground Newspapers | 345 |
Tom Wolfe | 359 |
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