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History 142D: American Popular Culture

HIST XL 142D

This course is open to participants of UCLA’s Global Classroom only. For more information, visit international.ucla.edu/institute/globalclassroom.

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Survey of American cultural history since 1865, with emphasis on historical development of urban, consumer-oriented American mass culture that enveloped diverse groups of Americans as producers and consumers. Historical development of American popular culture according to changing set of political, economic, and social circumstances. Evolution of national and global framework for mass circulation of popular cultural expressions, as well as arrival of new technologies that enabled that development.

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