Table of Contents:
  • Culture and nationhood
  • Vaudeville : template for the century
  • Outsider art : American popular song
  • Silent film : the private experience
  • Censorship, class, and culture
  • Isadora Duncan and the spirit of modernism
  • Cultural communities and cultural consequences
  • Modern art meets modern marketing : the Armory Show
  • Unambiguous ambition : Eugene O'Neill and the Provincetown Players
  • The politics of culture : the singing army
  • Epilogue : broadcasting begins.