All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties

Name: All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties
Brand: Cassell
Price: 20.25 USD
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Author: Joseph Connolly
ISBN: 9780304355969

by Joseph Connolly · Cassell · tapa dura · ISBN 9780304355969

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Joseph Connolly

9780304355969

Cassell

English

tapa dura

10/5/2000

128 pages

24.8 x 19.9 x 1.9 cm

676 g

Synopsis of All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties

«All Shook Up: A Flash of the Fifties» is a visual essay on popular culture by Joseph Connolly, published by Cassell in hardcover (128 pages, in English).

A survey of 1950s popular culture in Britain and the United States: the rise of rock and roll, television, dances and youth fashions. With period photographs, beatniks, bohemians and stars such as Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean and Buddy Holly appear, alongside advertisements, inventions and objects that defined the decade.

First published in 2000; thematic classifications place it in social history, popular culture and photographic collections.

For readers interested in the social history, popular culture and aesthetics of the 1950s, with a visual focus.