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American Fun

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by John Beckman


  Harris, Phil

  Harrison, Benjamin

  Harvard, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 10.1, 11.1

  “Havana Affair,”

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1.1, 5.1, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3

  Hayden, Tom

  Hays, Will, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1

  Hays Office, 9.1, 9.2

  Hayward, Zab, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 5.1, 7.1

  Hearst, William Randolph, 7.1, 8.1

  hedonism, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 13.1

  of 1920s, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, nts.1

  of 1960s, itr.1, 12.1

  Hell’s Angels, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 12.1, 13.1

  Helm, Levon

  Helms, Chet, 10.1, 10.2

  “Helter Skelter,”

  Henderson, Fletcher, 7.1, 8.1

  Hendrix, Jimi, 10.1, nts.1

  Henson, Josiah, 3.1, 3.2

  hepcats

  Herald of Freedom

  Hermes, Will

  Herskovits, Melville J.

  Heth, Joice

  Hickok, Wild Bill

  Highland Mammoth Boys

  hip-hop, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4

  “Hippie Hop Tour,”

  hippies, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1, nts.2

  commercialization of, 12.1, 12.2

  in New York

  Historie (Bradford), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4

  History of the Big Bonanza (De Quille)

  Ho, Jeff

  hoaxes, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 10.1

  banana, 10.1, 10.2

  of Barnum, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 10.1

  GE, 13.1, 13.2

  mass

  of Twain, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1, nts.1

  in Wild West, 4.1, 4.2

  of Yippies

  Hobbes, Thomas, 2.1, 4.1

  Hoffman, Abbie, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1

  Hoffman, Frederick J.

  Hoffman, Julius, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1

  Hog Farm

  Holbrook, Hal

  Holland, liberal tolerance in

  Hollywood, see motion pictures

  Hollywood Ten

  Home to Harlem (McKay)

  Homo Ludens (Huizinga)

  homosexuality, itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, nts.1

  Hoofer’s Club

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  Hopkins, Philip

  “Hot Fun in the Summertime,”

  House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 10.1, 11.1, 11.2

  Howells, William Dean

  Howl

  Hughes, Langston, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3

  Hughes, Lynn

  Huizinga, Johan

  Human Be-In

  Human Roulette (Human Whirlpool; Social Mixer), 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1

  Human Switchboard

  humbug, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1

  Humbug

  Humbugs of the World (Barnum)

  Hume, David

  humor:

  gallows

  punk

  sense of, 4.1, 10.1

  see also jokes

  humorists

  Humphrey, Hubert

  Humphrey, Moses

  Hungary

  Hunter’s Point riots, 10.1, 10.2

  Hurston, Nora Zeale, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, nts.1, nts.2

  Hussy, The

  Hutcheson, Francis, 2.1, 2.2

  Hutchinson, Thomas, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

  Iggy Pop

  “I Got You Babe,”

  “(I Live for) Cars and Girls,”

  immigration, immigrants, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 11.1

  in California, 4.1, nts.1

  I’m No Angel

  impressment, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3

  Improv Everywhere, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1

  improvisation, 10.1, 10.2

  inclusivity, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1

  multiracial, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1

  Independence Day (Fourth of July), 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

  Independent, The

  Independent Advertiser

  Indian Removal Act

  individualism, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1

  commercialism vs., 6.1, nts.1

  communitarianism vs.

  see also do-it-yourself

  Infants of the Spring (Thurman)

  Infinite Jest (Wallace)

  Inns of Court and Chancery, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

  “Insanitarium,”

  insanity

  insecurity, fun as alternative to

  intellectuals, 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, nts.1

  enlightened

  Internet, DIY heritage of

  Internet Age

  “Invisible Circus: The Rite of Spring, The,”

  Irish Americans, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 9.1

  in Bowery culture

  Irving, Washington

  It, 6.1, 7.1

  Italy, Italians, 4.1, 4.2

  “It girls,” 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1

  Jackson, Andrew, itr.1, 3.1, 5.1

  Jackson Age, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2

  Jack Tars, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, 8.1, nts.1, nts.2

  Jagger, Mick

  Jake (char.)

  Jamaica, Jamaicans

  James, King Leon, 9.1, 13.1

  James, king of England

  Janie (char.)

  Japanese Americans, relocation of

  jazz, itr.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 13.1

  dance, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1

  as disreputable

  roots of, 7.1, 7.2

  as term

  trends in

  Jazz Age, itr.1–xiii, itr.2, itr.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1, nts.2

  duration of

  “joyous revolt” in, 8.1, 11.1, nts.1

  “Jazz at Home” (Rogers), 8.1, 8.2, nts.1

  “jazz baby,” 7.1, 8.1

  “Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret” (Hughes)

  Jazz emotions

  Jazz Singer, The

  Jefferson, Thomas, 5.1, nts.1

  Jefferson Airplane

  Jeffersonians

  Jewett, Sarah Orne

  Jews, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1

  in Hollywood

  Jim Crow (char.), 5.1, 10.1

  jitterbug, 7.1, 9.1

  Jo (fictional politician)

  John (slave character)

  Johnson, Charles

  Johnson, Frank

  Johnson, Helene

  Johnson, James P.

  Johnson, James Weldon, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Matthew, 10.1, 10.2

  Johnson, Samuel, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1

  Johnson, William Henry (“What Is It?”)

  JoJo the Dog-Faced Boy

  jokes, itr.1, 4.1

  “getting it,” 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, nts.1

  ribald, see also satire

  Jolly Fellows, 9.1, 13.1

  Jolson, Al

  Jones, Annie

  Jones, Christopher

  Jones, Washoe Mike

  Jonson, Ben

  Joplin, Janis, 10.1, 11.1

  “Josh” (Twain’s pseudonym)

  Juba (Giouba; dance), 3.1, 4.1, 5.1

  “Juba” (William Henry Lane), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  “Judy Is a Punk,”

  Julia (Harris’s daughter-in-law)

  Julian, Herbert Fauntleroy

  Juneteenth

  juvenile delinquency

  Kames, Lord

  Katrina, Hurricane

  Kaufman, Andy

  Keaton, Buster, 7.1, 7.2

  Keith, Benjamin Franklin “B. F.,” 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 12.1

  “Keith Circuit,”

  Kellogg, A. N.

  Kennedy, Robert

  Kent State massacre

  Kerouac, Jack, 10.1, 10.2

  Kesey, Faye

  Kesey, K
en, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  King Charles (Pinkster figure), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 8.1

  King Oliver, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1

  King Philip’s War (1675), 1.1, 1.2

  Kinney, Abbot, 13.1

  Kioster and Bial’s Hall

  Kmen, Henry A.

  Knopf, Alfred A., 8.1, nts.1

  Knowles, Charles

  Knowles riots, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, nts.1

  Krassner, Paul, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, nts.1

  Kubo, Shogo, 13.1

  Ku Klux Klan (KKK), itr.1, 1.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2

  Kurshan, Nancy

  Kushner, Anita, 11.1, 11.2

  Kweli, Tasha

  “Lace” hoax, 11.1, 11.2

  Lady Lou (char.)

  La Honda, Calif., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  Lake, Steve

  Lake Tahoe

  Lakotas

  La Mortadella

  Lancet

  Landout, Billy

  landslide hoax

  Lane, William Henry “Juba,” 5.1, 5.2, 5.3

  Lange Dorothea

  Larsen, Nella

  Latinos, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1

  Latrobe, Benjamin H.

  “Laughers” (Hughes), 8.1, nts.1

  Laugh-In

  Laughlin, Chan

  laws:

  flouting of, itr.1–xiii, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1

  improvised

  J. Adams’s faith in

  Levitican, 1.1, 1.2

  reform in enforcement of

  repressive, itr.1–xvii, 1.1, nts.1

  Wild West’s lack of, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1

  lazzi (comic routines)

  League for Spiritual Discovery

  Leary, Timothy, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4

  Le Baron, William

  Leblanc, Laurine

  Lee, Bruce, 13.1, 13.2

  Leech, Samuel

  Leggett, William

  Legion of Decency

  Leimert Park

  leisure, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, nts.1

  LeMothe, Ferdinand (Jelly Roll Morton), 7.1, 7.2, nts.1

  Lerner, Michael A.

  Leroy, Sally (char.)

  Les Deux Magots

  “Let’s Dance,”

  “Let’s Do the Black Bottom,”

  “Let’s Misbehave,”

  Levine, Lawrence W., 3.1, 6.1

  Levitt, Bill

  Levittowns

  Lewis, David Levering, 8.1, 8.2

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Lhamon, W. T., Jr.

  liberty, see freedom

  “Liberty Song,”

  Liberty Tree

  Life, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2

  lightbox shows, 10.1, 10.2

  Lincoln Gardens

  Lincoln Park (Chicago)

  Lincoln Park (New Orleans)

  Lindbergh, Charles, 7.1, 7.2

  Lindsay, Vachel, 8.1, 8.2

  Lindy hop, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1

  Lippmann, Walter

  literature:

  African-American, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, nts.1

  high-modernist

  incendiary

  of women, 8.1, 9.1

  see also specific writers and works

  Little Big Horn, battle at

  Little Egypt, 6.1, 6.2

  Little Wolf (char.)

  Livingston, Jenny

  Lloyd, Harold

  local color

  Locke, Alain, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, nts.1

  Locke, John, 2.1, nts.1

  Locofocos

  Lomax, Alan

  Lomax, John, 3.1, 9.1

  London, England, 1.1, 4.1

  Longshoreman’s Hall, 10.1, 10.2

  Los Angeles, Calif., itr.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  Lott, Eric

  Louisiana Purchase

  Louis-Philippe, king of France

  Love in Greenwich Village (Dell)

  Lowe, Uncle Jim

  Lower East Side

  Loyal Nine, 2.1, 2.2

  loyalty review boards

  LSD (acid), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  Luciano, Lucky

  lynchings, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  Macbeth (Shakespeare), 5.1

  MacMurray, Lillita

  Macready, William Charles

  Macy’s

  Mad Bomber

  Madison, James

  Mad Magazine, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1

  magazines, 10.1, 12.1

  fan, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  women’s

  zines, fanzines, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5

  Maier, Pauline

  Maine, 4.1, 5.1

  Major, Clarence

  Malcolm X, 9.1, 10.1

  Manhattan Casino

  Manhattan Hotel

  Manitoba, Handsome Dick

  Manson, Charles

  Mantrap

  marathons, dance, itr.1–xiii, itr.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1

  March, Joseph Moncure

  Marcus, Greil

  Marcuse, Herbert, 10.1, 11.1

  Mardi Gras Indians

  Mardi Gras parades

  Margy (char.)

  marijuana, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1, 12.1

  Marinoff, Fania

  marketing:

  advertising in, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 12.1, 13.1

  of counterculture, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1

  of fun, 6.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2

  of Native Americans

  Marsh, Reginald

  Marshall, James W.

  Martha’s Vineyard

  Martha Washingtonians

  Martin, Dick

  Marx Brothers, 9.1, 10.1

  Marxism, 9.1, 11.1

  Maryland, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

  masks

  Mason, Charlotte Osgood, 8.1, 9.1

  Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1.1, 2.1

  Massachusetts tribe, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5

  “Master Race Rock,”

  Mather, Cotton, 1.1, 3.1, nts.1

  Maugham, W. Somerset

  May, Asa and Margaret

  May Day festivals, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, nts.1

  Mayflower, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

  Mayflower Compact (1620), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, nts.1

  Mayhew, Jonathan

  “May-Pole of Merry Mount, The” (Hawthorne), 5.1, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2

  maypoles, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1, 13.1

  MC5 (band), 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2

  McCarthy, Eugene

  McCarthy, Joe

  McCoy, Horace

  McDonald’s

  McGonigal, Jane, 13.1, nts.1

  McIntosh, Ebenezer

  McKane, John Y., 6.1, 6.2

  McKay, Claude, nts.1, nts.2

  McLuhan, Marshall, 11.1, 11.2

  McMillan, John

  McMurtry, Larry

  McNeil, Legs

  Mechanic’s Hall

  Medusa (MC)

  “Mellow Yellow,”

  Meltzer, Richard

  Melville, Herman

  Melvin, Milan

  Mencken, H. L., 7.1, 7.2, 7.3

  Merlyn’s Club, 13.1

  Mermaid Parade

  Merry Mount colony, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, nts.1, nts.2

  destruction of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3

  founding of, itr.1, 1.1

  legacy of, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 13.1, nts.1

  May Day festival at

  Merry Pranksters, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2

  Metesky, George

  Methodists, itr.1, 3.1

  Metropolitan

  Mexico, Mexicans, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1

  MGM

  Michigan, University of

  middle class:

  activism of

 
; African-American, 8.1, 8.2

  commercial entertainment and, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2

  in counterculture, 10.1, 11.1

  mockery of

  propriety of, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1

  religion in

  rise of, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

  women

  Middle Passage, 1.1

  Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 8.1, 8.2, nts.1

  Millbrook, N.Y.

  millennium era

  Millinder, Lucky

  millionaires

  Mills, Florence

  Milton, John

  Mineo, Sal

  miners, itr.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, 6.1

  miners’ ball, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1, 13.1

  Minns, Albert, 9.1, 9.2

  Minor Threat

  Minstrel Show, A: Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel, 10.1, 10.2

  minstrelsy, itr.1–xx, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1

  see also blackface minstrelsy

  Mississippi River, as analogy for fun, itr.1–xxiv, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3

  Mitchell, William

  Mixon, Wayne

  mockery, itr.1, itr.2

  Modern Times, itr.1, 9.1

  Mohawks, Sons of Liberty disguised as, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 13.1

  Monkees

  “monkey warfare,”

  Montrell, Charles

  Moonshine

  Moore, Colleen

  Moore, Ryan

  Moose (DJ)

  Moreno, Antonio

  Morgan, J. P.

  Morgan, Marcyliena

  Mormons

  Morse, Hazel (char.)

  Morton, Jelly Roll (Ferdinand LeMothe), 7.1, 7.2, nts.1

  Morton, Thomas, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 10.1, nts.1, nts.2

  Bradford vs., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6

  colony of, see Merry Mount colony

  legacy of, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3

  poem of

  Mose (char.), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 10.1, 12.1

  Mose in California

  Mose in China

  mosh pits, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2

  Mothers of Invention

  Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPAPAI)

  Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA)

  motion pictures, itr.1, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, nts.1

  in counterculture, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2

  golden age of, 9.1, 9.2

  in 1920s, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3

  suppression of

  Mummers’ Parade

  music:

  African-American legacy in, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1; see also Jazz Age

  DIY in

  psychedelic, 10.1, 12.1

  rebellion through

  in revelry, 4.1, nts.1

  in slavery, 3.1, 3.2

  in Wild West

  women’s liberation in

  see also dancing; songs; various genres

  Musical Courier

  My Ántonia (Cather)

  My Bondage and My Freedom (Douglass)

  “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (Hawthorne)

  “My Pussy Is a Gangsta,”

  Myth of the Negro Past (Herskovits)

  Nance, Doyle

  Narrative (Douglass)

  Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, 3.1

 

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