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RR 2014/188 100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries

机译:RR 2014/188 100改变美国的艺人:流行文化名人百科全书

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ABC-Clio's 100 Entertainers Who Changed America, reviewed here in its e-book version, attempts what is by definition a highly subjective and debatable task. This reality is recognized and embraced by the editor in the book's introduction. Sickels asserts that popularity is not the proper measure for determining which entertainers "changed America". Instead, the most important factor is "influence", although he provides no concrete parameters for how this factor has been weighed in making the selections. An expansive definition of "entertainer" has also been used in selecting subjects for this volume. Actors, singers and other performers are, of course, included - but so are other public figures who gained fame through various endeavors that would not typically earn them the label "entertainer". Among these are comic book luminaries Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, journalists Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite and aviator Amelia Earhart. In terms of history, the selected entries are weighted heavily toward people who were famous from the latter half of the 20th century to the present. Among the handful of exceptions are such wildly different figures as P.T. Barnum, Cecil B. DeMille, the always enchanting, Earhart and Bessie Smith.
机译:ABC-Clio的《改变美国的100个演艺人员》在其电子书版本中进行了复习,其定义是一项主观性高且有争议的任务。编辑在本书的简介中认识并接受了这种现实。 Sickels断言,普及度并不是确定哪个艺人“改变了美国”的适当措施。相反,最重要的因素是“影响力”,尽管他没有提供关于如何权衡该因素以进行选择的具体参数。在为该卷选择主题时,也使用了“娱乐人”的广泛定义。演员,歌手和其他表演者当然也包括在内,但其他公众人物也因各种努力而声名fa起,而这些努力通常不会为他们赢得“娱乐者”的称号。其中包括漫画家杰克·柯比(Jack Kirby)和斯坦·李(Stan Lee),记者爱德华·R·默罗(Edward R.Murrow)和沃尔特·克朗凯特(Walter Cronkite)以及飞行员阿米莉亚·埃尔哈特(Amelia Earhart)。从历史上看,入围作品的重点是从20世纪下半叶至今的著名人物。在少数例外中,有P.T.巴纳姆(Barnum),塞西尔·B·德米勒(Cecil B. DeMille),永远迷人的艾尔哈特(Earhart)和贝茜·史密斯(Bessie Smith)。

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