Table of Contents

Contents Introduction

• Adult Westerns
• Horatio Alger, Jr.
• American Gothic
• Answer Songs
• AromaRama and Smell-O-Vision
• Ayatollah Songs
• Barbershop Quartet
• Barnum
• Batman
• Beatlemania
• Milton Berle and Texaco Star Theater
• Betty Boop
• Big Little Books
• James Bond, Agent 007
• Boogie Woogie
• British Invasion
• Busby Berkeley
• The Cakewalk
• Calypso
• Car Songs
• Casey at the Bat (ital)
• David Cassidy
• Vernon and Irene Castle
• Charlie Chaplin
• The Charleston
• Chautauqua
• The Chipmunks
• Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West
• Columbia Comedy Shorts
• Commercial Folk Music
• Davy Crockett
• Currier & Ives
• “Dallas”
• Death Songs
• Dime Novels
• Disco
• Double Feature
• Elvis Is Alive
• M. C. Escher
• Fantasia (ital)
• Farrah Fawcett-Majors
• “General Hospital”
• Gertie, the Trained Dinosaur (ital)
• Glitter Rock
• Betty Grable
• Happenings
• “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”
• Hero-Worship Songs
• Hermann Hesse
• Hippodrome
• David Hockney
• Hopalong Cassidy
• Howdy Doody
• Keystone Kops
• Freddy Krueger
• Jenny Lind
• Peter Max
• Paul McCartney Is Dead
• Rod McKuen
• Vaughn Meader
• Medicine Shows
• Mickey Mouse
• Minstrel Shows
• The Monkees
• Marilyn Monroe
• Monster Movies
• Movie Palaces
• Movie Serials
• Murder Ballads
• Nickelodeons
• “The Night Before Christmas”
• Ninja Movies
• On the Road (in ital)
• Optical Toys
• The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
• Pantomime
• Maxfield Parrish
• Pasticcio
• Peanuts (in ital)
• Pete Smith Specialties
• Mary Pickford
• Play-Party
• Pop Art
• Elvis Presley
• Psychedelic Posters
• Punch and Judy
• Punk Rock
• Ragtime
• Rambo: First Blood, Part II (ital)
• “Rock Around the Clock” and the Birth of Rock 'n Roll
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show (ital)
• Rowan & Martin's “Laugh-In”
• The San Francisco Sound
• Scribbling Women
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (ital)
• Allan Sherman
• Silly TV Superheroes
• Frank Sinatra
• “The $64,000 Question”
• Soft Sculpture
• Stereoscopy: 3D
• The Stratemeyer Syndicate
• Striptease
• Super Realism
• Superman
• Surf Music
• Swing Music
• Taxi-Dance Hall
• Shirley Temple
• Tin Pan Alley
• Tiny Tim
• J. R. R. Tolkein
• TV's Bizarre Families
• The Twist
• Uncle Tom's Cabin (ital)
• Underground Newspapers
• Video Games
• Wandering Portraitists
• “White Christmas”
• Tom Wolfe
• “Yankee Doodle”
• The Ziegfeld Follies
• Cross-References
• Index