The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental valu

This book examines the arrival of jazz in Italy, its reception and development, and how its distinct style influenced musicians in America.

Erik Satie (1866-1925) came of age in the bohemian subculture of Montmartre, with its artists' cabarets and cafés-concerts. Yet apologists have all too often d

This informative two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of the fads and crazes that have taken America by storm from colonial times to the presen

David Ciarlo offers an innovative visual history of each of these transformations. Tracing commercial imagery across different products and media, Ciarlo shows