The Nicest Kids in Town
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The Nicest Kids in Town

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The Nicest Kids in Town

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American Bandstand, one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated American Bandstand, this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Matthew F. Delmont brings together major themes in American history—civil rights, rock and roll, television, and the emergence of a youth culture—as he tells how white families around American Bandstand's studio mobilized to maintain all-white neighborhoods and how local school officials reinforced segregation long after Brown vs. Board of Education. The Nicest Kids in Town powerfully illustrates how national issues and history have their roots in local situations, and how nostalgic representations of the past, like the musical film Hairspray, based on the American Bandstand era, can work as impediments to progress in the present.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780520951600
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Making Philadelphia Safe for “WFIL-adelphia”: Television, Housing, and Defensive Localism in Bandstand’s Backyard
  9. 2. They Shall Be Heard: Local Television as a Civil Rights Battleground
  10. 3. The de Facto Dilemma: Fighting Segregation in Philadelphia Public Schools
  11. 4. From Little Rock to Philadelphia: Making de Facto School Segregation a Media Issue
  12. 5. The Rise of Rock and Roll in Philadelphia: Georgie Woods, Mitch Thomas, and Dick Clark
  13. 6. “They’ll Be Rockin’ on Bandstand, in Philadelphia, P.A.”: Imagining National Youth Culture on American Bandstand
  14. 7. Remembering American Bandstand, Forgetting Segregation
  15. 8. Still Boppin’ on Bandstand: American Dreams, Hairspray, and American Bandstand in the 2000s
  16. Conclusion: Everybody Knows about American Bandstand
  17. Notes
  18. Index