History of Popular Culture in the United States

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American histories of song and dance, theatre and television, popular literature, mass-produced images. Explores how historians analyze historical sources in order to understand the role of popular culture in both reflecting and shaping American ideologies, identities, and experiences. Analysis of how historians understand the place of popular culture within shifting, intersecting, and overlapping social, ideological, political, legal, and demographic, and economic contexts. Traces connections between past and present cultural forms to understand principles of continuity and change.