By Matthew F. Delmont

ISBN-10: 0520272072

ISBN-13: 9780520272071

ISBN-10: 0520272080

ISBN-13: 9780520272088

American Bandstand, the most well known tv exhibits ever, broadcast from Philadelphia within the overdue fifties, a time whilst that urban had turn into a battleground for civil rights. Counter to host Dick Clark’s claims that he built-in American Bandstand, this ebook unearths how the 1st nationwide tv software directed at young people discriminated opposed to black adolescence in the course of its early years and the way black children and civil rights advocates protested this discrimination. Matthew F. Delmont brings jointly significant subject matters in American history—civil rights, rock and roll, tv, and the emergence of a adolescence culture—as he tells how white households round American Bandstand’s studio mobilized to keep up all-white neighborhoods and the way neighborhood college officers strengthened segregation lengthy after Brown vs. Board of schooling. The Nicest youngsters in Town powerfully illustrates how nationwide concerns and historical past have their roots in neighborhood occasions, and the way nostalgic representations of the previous, just like the musical movie Hairspray, in keeping with the American Bandstand period, can paintings as impediments to growth within the present.

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