Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America

by Neil Harris

Book Overview

Neil Harris's scholarship of the past twenty-five years has helped to open up the study of American cultural history. This long-awaited collection gathers some of his rich and varied writings. Harris takes us from John Philip Sousa to Superman, with stops along the way to explore art museums and world fairs, shopping malls and hotel lobbies, urban design and utopian novels, among other artifacts of American cultures.

The essays fall into three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226317587
• ISBN13: 9780226317588
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"