Fad Mania! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fad Mania! write by Cynthia Overbeck Bix. This book was released on 2014-10-01. Fad Mania! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. College students crammed into phone booths. Couples dancing until they drop. Daredevils swallowing one live goldfish after another. Streakers dashing naked down the street. Planking and flash mobs and robotic pets. These are just some of the crazy fads that have caught hold in the United States over the last century. Where do these ideas come from and why do they catch people's imagination? Fads reflect the mood and spirit of a particular time, and they offer insight into a nation's culture. The 1950s, for example, was a time of economic prosperity and technological development. Americans expressed their delight in new inventions in many creative ways. One popular craze on college campuses was to stuff as many people as possible into a phone booth. On one campus, twenty-five people managed to squeeze into a single booth! In earlier decades, marked by the Depression and World War II, dance marathon frenzy caught on. Promoters lured couples with promises of fame and monetary prizes for those who could dance for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours. And great ideas never die. Almost one hundred years later, dance marathons came back. One creative variation, the flash mob dance, attracts spontaneous performances that range from flash mob wedding dances to ?Gangnam Style" K-Pop flash mobs in cities all over the world. Fad Mania! explores a century of American crazes, offering an entertaining and informative look at the major historical events of each decade and the fads that defined them. As you learn more about smiley buttons and Webkinz, you may just be able to predict this decade's next craze!
America's Oddest Fads
America's Oddest Fads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook America's Oddest Fads write by M. H. Seeley. This book was released on 2016-12-15. America's Oddest Fads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fads come and go, but theyre almost always weird. From troll dolls to pet rocks and even goldfish swallowing, there are plenty of weird fads hidden in American history. Full-color photographs introduce readers to one of Americas earliest fadsdrawing panoramas of townsas well as some of the weirder phenomena like flagpole sitting or dance contests. With full-color photographs highlighting these odd toys, games, and hobbies, readers learn some of the reasons behind these trends in American history.
Popular Fads and Crazes through American History [2 volumes]
Popular Fads and Crazes through American History [2 volumes] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Fads and Crazes through American History [2 volumes] write by Nancy Hendricks. This book was released on 2018-08-17. Popular Fads and Crazes through American History [2 volumes] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This informative two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of the fads and crazes that have taken America by storm from colonial times to the present. Entries cover a range of topics, including food, entertainment, fashion, music, and language. Why could hula hoops and TV westerns only have been found in every household in the 1950s? What murdered Russian princess can be seen in one of the first documented selfies, taken in 1914? This book answers those questions and more in its documentation of all of the most captivating trends that have defined American popular culture since before the country began. Entries are well-researched and alphabetized by decade. At the start of every section is an insightful historical overview of the decade, and the set uniquely illustrates what today's readers have in common with the past. It also contains a Glossary of Slang for each decade as well as a bibliography, plus suggestions for further reading for each entry. Students and readers interested in history will enjoy discovering trends through the years in such areas as fashion, movies, music, and sports.
The Violinist
The Violinist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Violinist write by . This book was released on 1912. The Violinist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Collective Behavior and Public Opinion
Collective Behavior and Public Opinion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Collective Behavior and Public Opinion write by Jaap van Ginneken. This book was released on 2003-04-02. Collective Behavior and Public Opinion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a highly innovative and stimulating work with the outline of an entirely new approach to massive and rapid shifts in opinion and communication. It discusses and explains such mysterious phenomena as sudden crazes and crashes, fads and fashion, hypes and manias, moral outrage and protests, gossip and rumors, and scares and panics. Rich in alternative insights, the book is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the points of departure: the most relevant processes of opinion formation and communication. Part II is about phenomena on three different levels, that have traditionally been studied within the twin fields of mass psychology and collective behavior sociology. Part III focuses on the three prime forms of "emotional coloring" of opinion currents and public moods. Part IV discusses a combination of some of the aforementioned phenomena: successive crazes and crashes in financial markets, and looks at why technological and economic, and social and opinion forecasts often fail so miserably. The audience for this book includes students of social and mass psychology, social movements and collective behavior sociology, and opinion and communication in general. Professionals in public relations, marketing, health, finance, and politics, as well as the educated lay audience, will also find this book of interest.
