Truth in advertising: Rationalizing ads and knowing consumers in the early twentieth-century United States
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DOI: 10.1007/s11186-017-9286-2
Abstract: This article examines the way advertising was rationalized in the early twentieth-century United States. Drawing on a targeted archival comparison with the United Kingdom, I show how the extensive mobilization undertaken to legitimate and rationalize… read more here.
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All In: The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States. Edited byJonathan D. Cohen andDavid G. Schwartz. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2018. xii + 284 pp. Tables, notes, index. Paper, $34.95. ISBN: 978-1-943859-60-3.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0007680519000138
Abstract: uncertainty. The changing use of metaphors provides telling clues about the timing of the probabilistic shift. If Benner in 1876 assimilated price cycles to fully predictable astronomic phenomena, in 1901 the director of the Weather… read more here.
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Talking American in the Midwest: Linguistic Diversity and Authenticity in the Twentieth-Century United States
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DOI: 10.1017/s0021875821000815
Abstract: During the early twentieth century – when the United States was receiving an influx of non-English-speaking immigrants, and “standardization” was a dominant, yet polarizing, concept – having a single national language that unified Americans became… read more here.
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Affect, language, race, voice: opera singers in nineteenth-century United States
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DOI: 10.1080/17411912.2020.1808500
Abstract: ABSTRACT Affect has often been an overlooked factor in many music histories because it appears unavailable or superficially undecodable in linguistically based documents that form the primary source of data analysis in historical ethnomusicology/musicology. However,… read more here.
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