{"product_id":"the-nicest-kids-in-town-american-bandstand-rock-n-roll-and-the-struggle-for-civil-rights-in-1950s-philadelphia-volume-32-hardcover","title":"The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock 'n' Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia Volume 32 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew F. Delmont\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Bandstand, \u003c\/i\u003e one of the most popular television shows ever, broadcast from Philadelphia in the late fifties, a time when that city had become a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark's claims that he integrated \u003ci\u003eAmerican Bandstand, \u003c\/i\u003e this book reveals how the first national television program directed at teens discriminated against black youth during its early years and how black teens and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Matthew F. Delmont brings together major themes in American history--civil rights, rock and roll, television, and the emergence of a youth culture--as he tells how white families around \u003ci\u003eAmerican Bandstand's\u003c\/i\u003e studio mobilized to maintain all-white neighborhoods and how local school officials reinforced segregation long after Brown vs. Board of Education. \u003ci\u003eThe Nicest Kids in Town\u003c\/i\u003e powerfully illustrates how national issues and history have their roots in local situations, and how nostalgic representations of the past, like the musical film \u003ci\u003eHairspray, \u003c\/i\u003e based on the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Bandstand\u003c\/i\u003e era, can work as impediments to progress in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy challenging Dick Clark's claim that he helped integrate American popular music and culture, Matthew Delmont puts the lie to Clark's air-brushed history of American Bandstand's role in racial desegregation. \u003ci\u003eThe Nicest Kids in Town\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the nexus of sound, place, race, and space operated together to create and reinforce a myth of national memory and belonging. Just as importantly, this compelling cultural history demonstrates the importance of the youth market as a theater of struggle where brave young men and women--outraged by the discrimination and racism they faced for the simple act of enjoying music--refused to have their bodies, tastes, or desires policed. Delmont shows how the music moved them, and how in turn they moved the music onto television screens across America.--Herman Gray, author of \u003ci\u003eCultural Moves\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Nicest Kids in Town\u003c\/i\u003e speaks simultaneously to several significant current lines of inquiry among historians of the United States after World War II. Delmont takes on issues that we thought we already knew completely--the social and cultural history of the 1950s and '60s, the Civil Rights movement, the birth of television--but he brings original material to his story and connects these issues in new ways. Delmont's work proves him to be a talented, careful, and thorough scholar, and in a large body of work on these topics, his book stands alone.\"--Jay Mechling, author of \u003ci\u003eOn My Honor: Boy Scouts and the Making of American Youth\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew F. Delmont \u003c\/b\u003eis Assistant Professor of American Studies at Scripps College.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 22, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46592921436357,"sku":"9780520272071","price":138.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/24BDaXAn219780520272071.webp?v=1785067536","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-nicest-kids-in-town-american-bandstand-rock-n-roll-and-the-struggle-for-civil-rights-in-1950s-philadelphia-volume-32-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}