Introduction -- Early popular culture: sources and silences -- Mines, migrant labour and township culture -- The city and the road -- The crowd, the state -- and songs -- The media: globalisation and ...

Mental Floss has introduced a celebrity trivia challenge, while Blavity offers a curated set of history trivia questions, and other outlets highlight trivia’s role in cultural engagement. The releases ...

Prologue : popular culture on the brink -- Blackface, Barnum, and newspaper ballyhoo -- Taming rough amusements, 1840s-1860s -- Building an entertainment industry -- The billion-dollar smile : from ...