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	NMAH \| Popular Entertainment
		This Museum's collections of popular entertainment artifacts hold some of the Smithsonian's most beloved artifacts.
		The mysterious world of science fiction is a major influence in American popular culture, from Superman comics to the various Star Trek TV series.
		Elvis Aron Presley (1935–1977) is one of the best-known and most influential figures in popular music.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/subject_detail.cfm?key=32&colkey=26 (495 words)

	MSN Encarta - Popular Music
		The most popular songs in America during the late 18th century, as judged by reported sales of printed music, were written by professional English composers for performance in London parks (known as pleasure gardens) or for performance in English ballad and comic opera.
		Minstrel shows—performances in which white entertainers dressed in flface and acted out crude parodies of African American behavior—were the dominant form of popular entertainment in the 19th century.
		A new youth-oriented popular market was defined by a broad category of rock music that included the influential studio experiments of the Beatles, San Francisco psychedelia, guitar heroes such as Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, Southern rock, hard rock, jazz rock, folk rock, and other styles.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551614/Popular_Music.html (1519 words)

	Toni Sant: Popular Entertainment and Virtual Culture - NYU Fall 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This course traces the historical development of popular entertainment from live to mediatized performance.
		During the past decade, popular entertainments have also moved into the virtual world of cyberspace where the Internet has become the predominant arena of interactive popular entertainment.
		By looking closely at specific modes of popular entertainment from the past 150 years we will see how they contributed towards the rise (or decline, as the case may be) of other forms of entertainment.
	tonisant.com /class/2001/fall (249 words)

	Journal of Popular Film and Television: Ethical considerations of promoting prosocial messages through the popular ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Most of the literature on the ethics of popular media has focused on specialized genres (e.g., television news, soap operas) and antisocial media effects, and does not discuss broad ethical questions regarding the use of media (Cooper 450-55).
		In the present article, we describe how popular films and television programs are used to promote social change, and then discuss the ethical issues that writers, producers, media professionals, and government officials need to consider.
		The present trend indicates that the entertainment orientation of the international film and television industry will increase, even in developing countries that are committed to using the media for educational purposes.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0412/is_n3_v21/ai_15475503 (1355 words)

	Popular entertainment (from Western theatre) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Alongside the developments in “legitimate” theatre, the last decades of the 19th century saw the rise of several forms of popular entertainment that often reached much larger audiences and created a new range of star performers.
		Popular art in the 20th century is usually dependent on such technologies of reproduction or distribution as television, printing, photography, digital compact disc and tape...
		In general, popular music is the product of an industry devoted entirely to its manufacture and sale.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-42205 (861 words)

	American Variety Stage
		Popular, live entertainment gained momentum in the late nineteenth century and reached a peak in the first decade of the twentieth.
		During the fifty-year period covered by this collection, minstrel shows were eclipsed by the unprecedented success of variety theater and an ever-increasing diversity of popular entertainment.
		To succeed at show business (as all forms of variety theater were called), entrepreneurs provided public entertainment that transcended the specific tastes of a particular class or ethnicity.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/vshtml/vsintro.html (659 words)

	ciweb.org \| Arts \| Popular Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Opening the Chautauqua Season for the first time and back by popular demand, this 90-member band under the direction of William Weikert was formed in 1929 by WWI veterans.
		Using period instruments, costumes and history, they entertain and educate listeners about the era of that produced the community brass band.
		The music scores have been preserved, or recreated, exactly as performed in the grand movie palaces of the 1920s with each featuring the dramatic tones of the magnificent pipe organs enhancing the unforgettable images on the silver screen.
	www.chautauqua-inst.org /popular_entertainment.html (2929 words)

	Review of American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870 - 1920
		What we expect from entertainers is not much different than what men and women of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries expected.
		American Variety is a rich site for students, historians, and the general public researching vaudeville and other popular entertainment between 1870-1920.
		Although the entire collection cannot be viewed via the web page, American Variety successfully illustrates the diverse forms of popular entertainment, with minimal editing and critical analysis.
	www.publichistory.org /reviews/View_Review.asp?DBID=27 (1066 words)

	Internet Public Library: Entertainment & Leisure
		This site describes popular fads of the past and present in fashion, collectibles, activities, and events.
		Entertainment and celebrity news and gossip from the E! Entertainment cable network.
		There is also a backstage area where those who organize and put on festivals and events can exchange ideas.
	www.ipl.org /div/subject/browse/ent00.00.00 (522 words)

	Wausau Daily Herald - Documentary shows how popular entertainment bolstered Nazi ideo
		Lighthearted entertainment was allowed to flourish to distract Germans from harsh realities of totalitarianism.
		"Entertainment rather than propaganda proved to be the most effective support for the regime," Moshe Zimmermann wrote in his Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper review of the film.
		Lyrics from 20 popular songs serve as ironic commentaries on the sinister policies propelling German industrial expansion for the coming war, mass physical fitness, higher birth rates, anti-Semitism, military training and adulation of Hitler.
	www.wausaudailyherald.com /wdhentertainment/292895190366746.shtml (762 words)

	Suggested Reading
		An entertaining and at times frank autobiography from the dean of Broadway directors.
		An entertaining (if sometimes stretched) overview of the history of American variety stage entertainment, focusing on the legendary Broadway revues of the early 20th Century.
		Entertaining and sometimes blunt autobiography from a lyricist/publicist who worked with many of the biggest names in 20th Century show business.
	www.musicals101.com /bibliogr.htm (1893 words)

	Popular Music and Society: Bibliography of Popular Music Teaching Resources - Bibliography
		Popular Music and Society, Winter, 1999 by B.
		The following resources are limited to book-length studies, with special attention to works of authors who contributed to this anthology and to scholars who have influenced their pedagogical thinking and instructional practices.
		Browne, Ray B. Against Academia: The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement, 1967-1988.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2822/is_4_23/ai_69434762 (837 words)

	Music, Theater, and Popular Entertainment in Victorian Britain
		Music, Theater, and Popular Entertainment in Victorian Britain
		A View of Popular Theater by Gustave Doré from London: A Pilgrimage
		Music, Theatre, Popular Entertainment, and the Visual Arts
	www.victorianweb.org /mt/mtov.html (88 words)

	UCLA International Institute :: Global Entertainment and Popular Culture
		What Chang meant to suggest by this perspective is that to understand where global entertainment and popular culture are headed, one should begin by looking afresh at the starting point: the fundamental cultural, political, and economic landscape of the earth as it stands today.
		Third, ownership of media empires can be expected to fall increasingly into the hands of entrepreneurs in world’s city-regions, which raises the issue of potential foreign censorship of what Americans see and read.
		In Miller’s words, some people believe Hollywood produces films that are popular “because it has an unfettered, free-enterprise hand, unlike national broadcasters like the BBC or CBC, or national cinemas, like the Mexican national cinema.
	www.international.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=24482 (1751 words)

	All eyes on anime / Japanese animated features emerge as popular entertainment worldwide
		But none of them have been able to fill American and European art houses as their elders did in the 1950s and '60s, when Japanese film was in its golden age.
		Its popularity, though, is not grounded in live action films, but in the animated features and television series that have come to be known as anime.
		This complex, ambiguous, thematically dense epic transcends classification as a children's fantasy; indeed, it has become the highest-grossing Japanese film ever, as popular and meaningful to adults as it is to children.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/21/DD183254.DTL (2129 words)

	Warren Fahey: Sydney Folklore Project - Popular Entertainment
		In the later half of the nineteenth century 'spectaculars' became an important part of popular entertainment.
		No doubt at lot of this interest is attributable to the popularity of the circus and P T Barnum in particular.
		One of her most popular songs was 'Home Sweet Home' which might tell something of her huge Australian success with miners in the 1850s when she toured here.
	warrenfahey.com /Sydney-Folklore/SECTION-19/sfp-section-19.html (950 words)

	Modern Japan - Entertainment - Popular Music
		Think about it - Sony Music Entertainment is one of the biggest record companies in the world; Yamaha is the largest manufacturer of musical instruments in the world; Japan has the sixth-largest population in the world; the music industry generates billions and billions of dollars worldwide every year.
		The rockabilly sounds of the late 50's became popular in the cities of Japan just after they revolutionised the US music scene.
		Lest you think that Japanese popular music is all commercialism and void of any artistic merit, I should mention that there are some the more talented artists who have made the big time.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/pop.shtml (1366 words)

	Wine Country Tours Adds Local Entertainment to Popular Niagara Wine and Gastronomy Tours
		Be entertained by Lord Mayor Kent, the mayor of Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1812, and his Lady Claire.
		Angelo will entertain you with colorful Niagara mobster and bootleg stories from yesteryear and some stories from not so long ago, and Italian folk songs.
		Also featured for this evening’s entertainment is a live trio for an evening of music and song taking you through the decades, featuring old Italian favorites and including music by Louie Prima, Perry Como, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka and Frank Sinatra.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/5/emw241421.htm (972 words)

	the futon critic - the web's best primetime television resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The compelling saga continues as these determined women and the men in their lives encounter romance, heartache and unexpected twists of fate.
		The newest package, 3 Men and a Chick Flick, is a weekend movie wrap hosted by men WE loves - celebrities, athletes, musicians, firemen and friends - who dish on the movie and the women in them during the wraps and in the breaks.
		WE: Women's Entertainment is a subsidiary of Rainbow Entertainment Services, which also includes AMC and IFC Companies.
	www.thefutoncritic.com /cgi/pr.cgi?id=20050516we02 (896 words)

	The Entertainment Ministry - Identifying God's Purposes in Popular Entertainment
		In The Parable Perception, Stephen Skelton reveals God’s purposes in popular entertainment through eye-opening answers to these Biblical questions:
		Featuring clips from The Andy Griffith Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bonanza and Superman, this presentation will arm you with the vision to see God’s destiny for story as a testimonial tool.
		If you wonder why movies, television, radio and books command our attention … If you want to understand how the Biblical heritage of story directly reflects on the modern entertainment of our culture …; If you want to reclaim the power of story for the glory of God … Then this message is for you!
	www.entmin.com /htm/parable_principle.htm (250 words)

	Journal of Popular Culture: T.S. Eliot and popular entertainment in Paris, 1910-1911.(Critical Essay)@ HighBeam Research
		Journal of Popular Culture: T.S. Eliot and popular entertainment in Paris, 1910-1911.(Critical Essay)@ HighBeam Research
		T.S. Eliot and popular entertainment in Paris, 1910-1911.(Critical Essay)
		The above preview is from Journal of Popular Culture, January 1, 2003.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:100141123&refid=holomed_1 (178 words)

	Amazon.com: Russian Popular Culture : Entertainment and Society since 1900 (Cambridge Russian Paperbacks): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This book presents a side of Russian life that is largely unknown to the West--the world of popular culture.
		By surveying detective and science fiction, popular songs, jokes, box office movie hits, the stage, radio and television, Richard Stites introduces the people and cultural products that are household words to the Soviet people.
		He demonstrates how popular culture has over the past century had more impact on the lives of Russian people and reveals more about their lives than the works of giants of high culture.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/052136986X?v=glance (784 words)

	The Entertainment and Media Deception
		A wake-up call for Christians concerning popular media entertainment.
		Opened Eyes - By Phil Arms - Recognizing the spiritual deceptions behind children's entertainment.
		Witches and Satanists Use the Media to Recruit - By David Benoit - Exposing the hidden agenda behind much of the media.
	www.fillthevoid.org /Entertainment/media.html (184 words)

	Scientific African - John Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Collins was on the Executive of the Ghana Musicians Union (MUSIGA) in the 1970’s and, together with Professor J.H.K. Nketia and the Ghanaian folk-guitarist Koo Nimo, was in 1987 made an honorary life-member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM).
		During the 1990’s Collins was Technical Director of the three-year joint Universiy of Ghana African Studies Department/Mainz African Music Redocumentation Project, and for seven years was with the Ghana National Folklore Board of Trustees/Copyright Administration.
		Eight entries on the "Ghanaian and Liberian popular music and recording industry" for the Continuum Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World Vols.
	www.scientific-african.org /scholars/jcollins (2225 words)

	Dickens and Popular Entertainment - Paul SCHLICKE - Mobipocket eBook
		Dickens and Popular Entertainment is the first extended study of this vital aspect of Dickens' life and work.
		Circus, fair, theatre and street performances provided the novelist with subject matter and with the sources of imaginative stimulus essential to his art.
		It shows the important place entertainment held in Dickens' journalism and presents an illuminating perspective on the public readings which dominated the last twelve years of his life.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/86610-ebook.htm (735 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Editorial Board
		He was a member of the popular Chizbatron entertainment troupe during Israel's War of Independence, and graduated from the Habima National Theatre's drama school.
		PAOLA BERTOLONE is professor of History of theatre at the University of Rome La Sapienza, she also is the author of several articles and two books on Goldfaden's Theatre and Eleonora Duse.
		MIKE BURSTYN The acclaimed American/Israeli actor & entertainer is celebrating his 53rd Anniversary in Show Business, having started his career in the Yiddish theatre at the age of seven.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/aboutUs_editorialBoard.aspx (5291 words)

	DBM Theatre NetSearch: Popular Entertainment Arts by Donn B. Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		DBM Theatre NetSearch: Popular Entertainment Arts by Donn B. Murphy
		Popular Culture Library - Bowling State University: the largest, most comprehensive research facility in the U.S. dedicated to the acquisition and preservation of primary research materials in 19th and 20th century American Popular Culture
		Should this not be the case with any particular image, and should the creator want it removed from these pages, please contact me murphyd@georgetown.edu and I will promptly remove it, as I have no wish to infringe on anyone's rights, or to use unfairly any artist's creative product.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/murphyd/netsearch/popent.html (563 words)

	goGreece.com: Entertainment
		Visit some of the most popular Greek beaches through real-time web cameras.
		Here you can also chat with other visitors or check the calendar of events taking place around these well known summer spots.
		Here is a popular and quite populated Greek chat area.
	www.gogreece.com /entertainment (228 words)

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