The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine
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The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine

Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music

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eBook - PDF

The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine

Shaping Mass Culture through Great Books and Fine Music

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This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
ISBN
9781137010780
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Multi-Talented Mr. Erskine
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Merchant of Academe
  7. Chapter 1 Gifted Boy of the Gilded Age
  8. Chapter 2 The Columbia Stamp
  9. Chapter 3 The Gown is the Town
  10. Chapter 4 Growing Pains at a New Columbia
  11. Chapter 5 World War I and the French Seduction
  12. Chapter 6 A Canon for the Rest of us
  13. Chapter 7 Celebrity Attraction
  14. Chapter 8 Fame and Loathing on Morningside Heights
  15. Chapter 9 Raising Juilliard
  16. Chapter 10 Segues and Second Acts
  17. Coda
  18. List of Abbreviations
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index