Popular Culture and the American Revolution 1760-1780

FAIN: FT-12286-74

Wayne H. Scott
Pennsylvania State University, Erie-Behrend College (Erie, PA 16563-0001)

To study the relationship existing between Popular Culture, including the popular arts, and the American Revolution from 1760 to 1780, in order to discern both the impact of the Revolution upon that Popular Culture and the "popular" influences upon the Revolution itself. (Popular Culture includes those arts, entertainments, ideas, values, attitudes and social patterns which were central to the daily experience of the general publish of the 1770s and the years before the War.)