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100 1 Chaddock, Katherine E
245 14 The multi-talented Mr. Erskine|h[electronic resource] :
|bshaping mass culture through great books and fine music
/|cKatherine Elise Chaddock
250 1st ed
260 New York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2012
300 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages) :|billustrations
336 text|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|2rdamedia
338 volume|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references and index
505 0 Introduction: Merchant of Academe -- Gifted Boy of the
Gilded Age -- The Columbia Stamp -- The Gown is the Town -
- Growing Pains at a New Columbia -- World War I and the
French Seduction -- A Canon for the Rest of Us --
Celebrity Attraction -- Fame and Loathing on Morningside
Heights -- Raising Juilliard -- Segues and Second Acts
520 At the pinnacle of his multi-faceted career, John Erskine
(1879-1951) was one of the best recognized personalities
on the American cultural, academic and entertainment
scenes. His popular novels and short stories appeared with
near monthly regularity from 1925 to 1945. Hollywood film
credits and New York gossip columns flashed his name.
Radio and newspaper interviewers clamored for his
opinions. Scholarly journals published his essays. He
traveled throughout the United States and beyond as a
visiting professor, an academic lecturer, a touring author
and a piano soloist with major symphonies. In addition to
the racy novels that popularized ancient philosophy and
myth, his serious poetry and reflective essays garnered
wide critical success. Ten years after initiating the
country’s first Great Books program at Columbia
University, he became the celebrated first president of
the Juilliard School of Music. For John Erskine there was
nothing incongruent among his seemingly disparate
endeavors. His consistent aim in education, literature and
music was to bring the emblems once reserved for the
highbrow few to wider and wider audiences. And that is
exactly what he did for many thousands of American
citizens. Yet, Erskine died with his creativity faded, his
name barely remembered and his family in disarray. This
first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger
contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism
that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life
narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity
along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop
icon
520 "At the pinnacle of his multi-faceted career, John Erskine
(1879-1951) was one of the best recognized personalities
on the American cultural, academic and entertainment
scenes. His popular novels and short stories appeared with
near monthly regularity from 1925 to 1945. Hollywood film
credits and New York gossip columns flashed his name.
Radio and newspaper interviewers clamored for his
opinions. Scholarly journals published his essays. He
traveled throughout the United States and beyond as a
visiting professor, an academic lecturer, a touring author
and a piano soloist with major symphonies. In addition to
the racy novels that popularized ancient philosophy and
myth, his serious poetry and reflective essays garnered
wide critical success. Ten years after initiating the
country's first Great Books program at Columbia University,
he became the celebrated first president of the Juilliard
School of Music. For John Erskine there was nothing
incongruent among his seemingly disparate endeavors. His
consistent aim in education, literature and music was to
bring the emblems once reserved for the highbrow few to
wider and wider audiences. And that is exactly what he did
for many thousands of American citizens. Yet, Erskine died
with his creativity faded, his name barely remembered and
his family in disarray. This first biography of John
Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass
culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his
fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates
perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from
public intellectual to pop icon"--Provided by publisher
588 Description based on print version record
590 Palgrave
600 10 Erskine, John,|d1879-1951
650 0 Authors, American|y20th century|vBiography
650 0 Musicians|zUnited States|vBiography
650 0 Scholars|zUnited States|vBiography
650 0 College teachers|zUnited States|vBiography
650 7 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century.|2bisacsh
650 7 EDUCATION / History.|2bisacsh
650 7 EDUCATION / Higher.|2bisacsh
650 7 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary|2bisacsh
650 7 LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General|2bisacsh
655 4 Electronic books
655 7 Electronic books.|2local
776 08 |iPrint version:|aChaddock, Katherine E.|tMulti-talented
Mr. Erskine.|b1st ed.|dNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
|z9780230117754|w(DLC) 2011047540|w(OCoLC)759915931
856 40 |3Palgrave Connect|uhttp://www.palgraveconnect.com/
doifinder/10.1057/9781137010780|zeBook(Palgrave)
