by John Beckman
Adams, Bluford
Adams, Greg
Adams, Jay
Adams, John, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 4.1, 8.1, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2
Adams, John Quincy
Adams, Samuel, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1, 11.1, 13.1
advertisement, 5.1, 6.1, 12.1, 13.1
Aerial Slide
African Americans:
African cultural roots of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
bias against, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1, 11.1
blackface mockery of, 5.1, 5.2
equal rights struggle by, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
fancy-dress balls of
festivals of, itr.1, 3.1, 3.2
folk culture of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
fun of, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 6.2
gangs
generational dichotomy among, 8.1, 8.2
in gold rush
heroes of
hippies vs., 10.1, 10.2, nts.1
in Jazz Age, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
literature of, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1
minstrelsy of, see blackface minstrelsy
musical legacy of, itr.1, itr.2, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1; see also Jazz Age
in New Orleans
racial pride of, 8.1, 8.2, 12.1
as scapegoats, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
slavery of, see slaves, slavery
stereotypes of, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2
storytelling of, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 9.1, 13.1
in urban gangs
see also civil rights movement
“Age of Play” (Duffus), 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1
Aikens, A. J.
Aimwell, Absalom, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Albany, N.Y., 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Albertson, Chris
alcoholism, 4.1, 4.2
alcohol use, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, nts.1
reform against, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1
in revelry, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1, nts.1
see also Prohibition; temperance movement
Alexander, James
Alexander, John K.
Alger, Horatio, 5.1, 6.1
Algonquin Hotel
Ali, Muhammad, 12.1, 13.1
Alinsky, Saul, 13.1, 13.2
Allen, Woody
Alpert, Richard (Baba Ram Das), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Altamont Speedway concert, 12.1
Alva, Tony, 13.1, 13.2
Alvarez, Luis
American Bandstand
America Needs Indians
American fun:
citizenry’s investment in
forefather of
historical perspective on, itr.1–xxv, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, nts.1
as quintessential to national identity, itr.1–xiv, itr.2–xix, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, nts.1
three tributaries of, itr.1–xxiv, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
see also specific historical eras
American Medical Association
American Museum, 5.1, 6.1
American Psychiatric Association
American Revolution, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2
commemorative celebrations of, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
early stirrings of, itr.1, itr.2–xxii, itr.3, 2.1
heritage of, itr.1, 10.1, 11.1, nts.1
Patriots of, itr.1–xxv, 2.1, 2.2, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 13.1, nts.1; see also specific individuals
American Society of Teachers of Dancing
American Temperance Society (ATS)
Americanus
amusement parks, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, itr.5, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1
Anansi (char.)
anarchy
fun as avoidance of, itr.1, 13.1
Anbinder, Tyler
Ancestral Mansion tour
Anderson, Douglas
Angels Camp, 4.1, 10.1, 13.1
Anglican Church, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
antebellum period, itr.1, itr.2, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 13.1
civil turmoil in
slavery in, see slaves, slavery
Antioch College, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1
antiwar activism, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 13.1
apathy
Appeal, The
Aqua Aerial Shuttle
Arabella
Arab Spring
Arbuckle, Fatty
Armstrong, Louis, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 12.1
Artaud, Antonin, 10.1, 12.1
Arthur, T. S.
Artists Liberation Front, 10.1, 11.1
Art of Money-Getting, The (Barnum)
Asbury, Herbert, 7.1, nts.1
Associated Press
Astaire, Fred
Astor, John Jacob
Astor Place Theater riots, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
Atlanta Constitution, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1
Attucks, Christopher “Crispus,” 2.1, 10.1
audience participation, 5.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 13.1, 13.2
Audubon Ballroom
Aunt Nancy
Aurora, Nev.
Austin, Nev.
authoritarianism, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
common people vs., 2.1, 13.1
flouting of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, 2.1, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1
of Pilgrims, 1.1, 1.2
Autobiography (Cody)
Autobiography (Malcolm X)
automobile industry, 12.1, nts.1
Autumn Records
Avalon Ballroom
Baartman, Sara (“Hottentot Venus”)
Babbs, Kenneth, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
baby boom era, 10.1, 12.1
“Babylon Revisited” (F. S. Fitzgerald)
Bad Brains
Bailey, John A.
Baker, Benjamin A.
Baker, Jack
Baker Beach
Ballard, Roy
Bambaataa, Afrika
bananas, 10.1, 10.2
Bangs, Lester, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Barnard college
Barnum, P. T., 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 6.1
legacy of, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 6.10, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1
Barnumism, 6.1, 7.1
Barnumization, 5.1, 6.1
Barton, Barton, Durstine and Osborn
baseball, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2
Basie, Count
Battling Butler
B-boys and girls, itr.1–xv, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6
Beat Generation, 10.1, 10.2
Beatles, 10.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
“Beat on the Brat,” 13.1
Beautiful and the Damned, The (F. S. Fitzgerald), 8.1, nts.1
“Beautiful Dreamer,”
Bechet, Sidney, 7.1, 7.2
Beiderbecke, Bix, 7.1, 7.2
be-ins, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Benjamin, Cornell
Bennett, William
Berg, Peter, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, nts.1
Berkeley, Busby
Berkeley, University of California at, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1
Berkeley Barb, 10.1, 10.2
Bernard, Governor
Bernays, Edward
Bernbach, Bill
Berry, Jan
Bertlemann, Larry
Best Buy prank, 13.1, nts.1
Bethel, N.Y.
Beulah Spa; or Two of the B’hoys
b’hoys, itr.1, itr.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2
Biafra, Jello
Bibb, Henry, 3.1, 3.2
“Big Blonde” (Parker)
Big John’s bar
Bijou Theater
Bikini Kill
“Bill Graham Presents,” 10.1, 12.1
Billington (hanged man)
Billionaires for Bush
Bissell, Tom, 13.1, nts.1
black bottom
blackface minstrelsy, itr.1–xx, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.
2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 13.1, nts.1
street theater updating of, 10.1, 10.2
Black Flag
blacklist
Black Panthers, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2
Black Rock Desert
Black Spades, 13.1, 13.2
Black Sun Press
blaxploitation
“Blizkreig Bop,”
block parties, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Blowhole Theater
blue laws
blues, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1
BMXers, BMXing, 13.1, 13.2
Boas, Franz
Bobolition parades
bohemians, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 10.2
Bolden, Buddy, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 10.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, nts.1
Bolt, Ben, see Doten, Alfred
Bonaparte, Napoleon, 3.1, 3.2
bondservants, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, nts.1
Bones Brigade
Bontemps, Arna
bootlegging, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1
Borges, Jorge Luis
Borthwick, John David, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 10.1, 13.1
Boston, Mass., 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, 13.1
roots of Revolution in, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 8.1
Boston Gazette, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Boston Massacre, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1
Boston Newsletter
Boston Tea Party, itr.1, 2.1, 7.1, 11.1, 13.1
Bottley, Buddy, 7.1, 7.2
Bow, Clara, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
Bowery culture, 5.1, 6.1, nts.1
see also b’hoys; g’hals
Boyd, Nancy (pseudonym), see Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Boy Scouts of America, 7.1, 11.1
Boyton, Paul
Bradford, Perry
Bradford, Rebecca
Bradford, William, 4.1, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2
Merry Mount destroyed by, 1.1, 1.2
Morton vs., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7
Puritanism of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1
Brand, Stewart, 6.1, 12.1
Bratmobile
Brautigan, Richard
breakaway, 7.1, 7.2
break-dancers, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
breakdown (dance), 5.1, 5.2
Brennan, Jay
Brer Fox, 6.1, 9.1
Brer Rabbit, 6.1, 9.1, nts.1, nts.2
Brewster, William
Brewster Publications Fame and Fortune Contest
Bridenbaugh, Carl
Broadway Theater
Bronx Boys Club summit
Brooklyn Standard Union
Brooks, Louise, 7.1, 8.1
Brooks, Mel, 12.1, 13.1
Brother Coon (char.)
Brother Rabbit (char.), 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 8.1, 13.1, nts.1
as Brer Rabbit, 6.1, 9.1, nts.1
“Brother Rabbit and the Mosquito,”
“Brother Rabbit Has Fun at the Ferry” (Harris)
Brother Wolf (char.)
Brown, James
Brown, Joshua
Browne, Charles Farrar, see Ward, Artemus
Bruce, Lenny
Bruce, Richard
Bruno, Giordano
Bryant’s Minstrels
Bryn Mawr College
Buchanan, Charles
Buckley, William F.
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 13.1
buffalo hunts, 6.1, 6.2
buffet flats
buggery
Bugs Bunny
Build-A-Bear
“Bunch o’ Blackberries,”
Bunker, Benjamin B., 4.1, 11.1
Buntline, Ned, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, nts.1
Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques
burlesque
Burning Man, itr.1, 13.1
Bush era
BusinessWeek
Cable, George Washington, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2
Cacophony Society, itr.1, 13.1
cakewalk, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Calamity Jane
California, 12.1, 12.2
DIY sports in
gold rush in, see gold rush
lawlessness in, 4.1, 4.2
in 1960s, see counterculture era
California education:
in counterculture
and punk
in Wild West, 4.1, 5.1
“California Sun,”
Callahans and the Murphys, The
call-and-response (antiphony), 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 10.1
Call Her Savage
Calloway, Cab
Calvinists, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1, nts.2
repression of, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1
Campbell, Cindy, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Campbell, Clive (Kool Herc), 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Campbell, Randolph B.
“Camptown Races,” 5.1, 5.2
Candelaio, Il (Bruno), 10.1, 10.2
Candlestick Park
Canetti, Elias
cannibalism, 1.1, 1.2
Cape Cod, Mass., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
Cape Horn
capitalism
opposition to, itr.1, 10.1, 11.1
Capone, Al
Captain Thayer’s tavern
Caribbean, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 8.1, 9.1
Carp, Benjamin L.
Carruthers, Richard
Carter, Paul A.
Carver, George Washington
Carver, John, 1.1, 1.2
Cassady, Neal, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1
Catharine Slip
Cather, Willa
Catholics, in censorship
“Cat’s Corner,” 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 13.1
Catskills
CBGB-OMFUG, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2
celebrities
cult of
Harlem
of jazz
movie, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
sports, 7.1, 7.2
censorship
of books
of movies, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1
sexual, 8.1, 10.1
of theater, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Centinel, 3.1, 3.2
Central Park
Be-In at
Chan, Sucheng
Chanfrau, Frank, 5.1, 10.1
Chang, Jeff
Chaplin, Charlie, itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1
Charity
Charlatans, 10.1, 13.1
Charleston, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, nts.1
Chatham theater
Chauncey, Charles
cheerful Christianity, 5.1, 5.2
Chekhov, Anton, “book signing” of
Chesnutt, Charles W.
Cheyennes
Chicago, Ill., 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, nts.1
“Days of Rage” in
Great Fire in
riots in, 11.1, 12.1
World’s Fair in, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1
Chicago Democratic Convention (1968)
Chicago Eight (Chicago Seven), trial of, 11.1, 13.1
Chicago Tribune
Chile, Chileans, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
China, Chinese, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 9.1, 13.1
“Chocolate City,”
Christmas
slave celebration of, 3.1, 3.2
Wild West celebration of, 4.1, 4.2
Christy Minstrels
Chuck, D
CIA
Cinco de Mayo
Circle Jerks
Circus, The
circuses, itr.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
City upon a Hill
civility:
African-American, 3.1, 8.1, 9.1
commercialism and
fun in promotion of, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, nts.1
of Native Americans
outside of law, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2
in pranks, 13.1, nts.1
in rebellion, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 8.1
rejectio
n of
in revelry, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2
Civil Rights Act (1964)
civil rights movement, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 12.1
Civil War, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
aftermath of, itr.1, itr.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Clam House
“Clarenz” (entertainer)
Clark, Dick
Clark, Joe
Clash
classism, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1
African-American, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, nts.1
in Gilded Age
in Hollywood
Clemens, Orion
Clemens, Samuel, see Twain, Mark
Clifford’s Inn
Clinton, George, 12.1, 13.1
Clorindy—the Origin of the Cake-Walk
Clyfton, Richard
Cobb, Ty
Coben, Stanley
cocaine, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1, nts.1
Cockettes
Code Noir
Cody, William “Buffalo Bill,” 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Colbert, Stephen
Cold War
College
college, culture of, 1.1, 8.1
Collson, Adam
Columbia University, 8.1, 8.2
comedians
Comedy Central
commedia dell’arte
commercialism, itr.1, itr.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
Barnumization in, 5.1, 6.1
counterculture and, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
DIY vs.
opposition to, 3.1, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 12.1, 13.1, nts.1
post–World War II
common people:
appeal to, 8.1, 9.1
in democracy, 2.1, 7.1
elite vs., 2.1, 2.2, 8.1
power of, 2.1, 2.2
as scapegoats
communes
communism, Communist Party, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1
community, sense of, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, nts.1
Como, Nev., 4.1, 4.2
computers
Comstock Lode, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1
Condon, Eddie
Coney Island, itr.1, itr.2, itr.3, itr.4, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
Congo, The (Lindsay)
Congo Square, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
Congress, U.S., 7.1, 10.1
anniversary of
Connecticut, itr.1, itr.2, 8.1
Connie’s
Connor, Captain
Conquest of Cool, The (Frank)
Conroy, David W., 2.1
Constitution, U.S., 3.1, 13.1
Eighteenth Amendment
Fifth Amendment
consumerism
opposition to, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Consumer Reports
continuous performance, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 12.1
Cook, James W., 5.1, 5.2
Cooper, Gary, 7.1, 7.2
Cooper, James Fenimore
corn shuckings, 3.1, nts.1
corporations, itr.1–xxv, 1.1
rights and duties of
corruption, police
Cosby, Bill
costumes, itr.1, 5.1, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1
cotillions, 3.1, 3.2