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You are invited to a reception at 6:30 pm on Tuesday,
September 23 at the Tamiment Library for Michael Denning, author
of _The Cultural Front_ (London, New York: Verso, 1997). The
library is located on the tenth floor of New York University's
Bobst Library at 70 Washington Square South, New York, New York.
The event is free and open to the public.
Michael Denning is Professor of American Studies at Yale
University. In addition to being the author of _Mechanic Accents: Dime
Novels and Working-Class Culture in America_ and _Cover Stories:
Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller_, he is also a
member of the National Writers Union and a strong support of the
staff and graduate student unions at Yale.
>From the dustjacket:
_The Cultural Front_ ranges from the manifestos of proletarian
literature in _Blast_ and _Anvil_ to the radical tabloids and
photomagazines like _PM_ and _Friday_; from culture industry unionism
to stories of spies and informers; from the rhetoric of Americanism
to the recasting of race and ethnicity; from revolutionary symbolism
to labor feminism; from the proletarian grotesque to the cabaret
blues. It recreates the world of young workers who built the CIO,
danced to the sounds of Count Basie and Artie Shaw, followed the
exploits of Joe DiMaggio and Josh Gibson, listened to Paul Robeson's
"Ballad for Americans," and watched Jean Arthur find love and the
union in screwball comedy. _The Cultural Front_ brings to life one
of the most fertile and exciting periods in American history, a
moment that left a permanent imprint on American culture and society,
the story of "the laboring of American culture."
Andrew H. Lee
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