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The multi-talented Mr. Erskine = shaping mass culture through great books and fine music /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The multi-talented Mr. Erskine/ Katherine Elise Chaddock.
Reminder of title:	shaping mass culture through great books and fine music /
Author:	Chaddock, Katherine E.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) :illustrations. :
Subject:	Authors, American - Biography. - 20th century -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137010780
ISBN:	9781137010780 (electronic bk.)

The multi-talented Mr. Erskine = shaping mass culture through great books and fine music /
Chaddock, Katherine E.

The multi-talented Mr. Erskineshaping mass culture through great books and fine music /[electronic resource] :Katherine Elise Chaddock. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) :illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Merchant of Academe -- Gifted Boy of the Gilded Age -- The Columbia Stamp -- The Gown is the Town -- Growing Pains at a New Columbia -- World War I and the French Seduction -- A Canon for the Rest of Us -- Celebrity Attraction -- Fame and Loathing on Morningside Heights -- Raising Juilliard -- Segues and Second Acts.

At the pinnacle of his multi-faceted career, John Erskine (1879-1951) was one of the best recognized personalities on the American cultural, academic and entertainment scenes. His popular novels and short stories appeared with near monthly regularity from 1925 to 1945. Hollywood film credits and New York gossip columns flashed his name. Radio and newspaper interviewers clamored for his opinions. Scholarly journals published his essays. He traveled throughout the United States and beyond as a visiting professor, an academic lecturer, a touring author and a piano soloist with major symphonies. In addition to the racy novels that popularized ancient philosophy and myth, his serious poetry and reflective essays garnered wide critical success. Ten years after initiating the country’s first Great Books program at Columbia University, he became the celebrated first president of the Juilliard School of Music. For John Erskine there was nothing incongruent among his seemingly disparate endeavors. His consistent aim in education, literature and music was to bring the emblems once reserved for the highbrow few to wider and wider audiences. And that is exactly what he did for many thousands of American citizens. Yet, Erskine died with his creativity faded, his name barely remembered and his family in disarray. This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.

ISBN: 9781137010780 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613844811

Source: 579308Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

860772
Erskine, John,
1879-1951.Subjects--Topical Terms:

573640
Authors, American
--20th century--Biography.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PS3509.R5 / Z65 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.52

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