Kenneth J Bindas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1168081 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth J Bindas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth J |
| FAMILY NAME | Bindas |
| SIGNATURE | BINDAS K J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cold War Country
Bootstrap Liberalism
Sean Cunningham’s Bootstrap Liberalism provides a detailed examination of the Democratic support for FDR during his administration by linking it to traditional Texas values of individualism, sacrifice, and Jeffersonian democracy. There is a subtext to the story he weaves, however, as the work serves as a disclaimer of sorts to the often-heard belief that opposition to Roosevelt by fellow Democrats during these years gave rise to the conservative …
Cowboy Presidents
Journal Article Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics since 1990 Get access Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics since 1990. By David A Smith. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. x, 277 pp. $36.95.) Kenneth J Bindas Kenneth J Bindas Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 109, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages…
The crossroads of identity
It was clear as the economic crash deepened in the 1930 s that the American people were suffering psychological shock. President Hoover regularly suggested that the economic problems of the country were “largely psychological,” and Roosevelt worried in his inaugural address that the people might succumb to “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.” Daniel Starch observed in Faith, Fear and Fortunes (1934) that the “‘New Deal’ is a psychological…
Eric Rauchway. Winter War
Eric Rauchway provides an incisive examination of one of the most significant transfers of presidential power in the last century, as the tensions between the incoming New Deal president Franklin Roosevelt and the outgoing New Era prophet Herbert Hoover provide for engaging reading. Rauchway sets out to correct the notions that FDR’s New Deal was not a well thought-out program before he entered the White House and that Hoover was simply a “victim…
Somebody is really up there!’
Machines of Youth
Machines of Youth is about men and boys and their relationship with the automobile in the last century. While Gary S. Cross offers a chapter on the low-rider movement within the Hispanic community and makes occasional references to African Americans and women, the book is mainly about white, primarily working-class boys and men and their desire to modify cars into hot rods ready to cruise the strip, hoping to attract women, to race the cars in th…
Calling Me Home
Depression Folk
Ronald D. Cohen has written numerous books and articles about the influence of folk music. In Depression Folk he examines key folk artists such as Leadbelly, Josh White, Woody Guthrie, and Gene Autry, as well as collectors such as John Lomax and Alan Lomax—to “focus on the role that folk music played in the clash between capitalism and the emerging grassroots proletarian movements” (p. 6). Make no mistake, Cohen knows his folk music, as the first…
Allison McCracken. Real Men Don’t Sing
Allison McCracken documents the rise and decline of a style of singing—crooning—that came into its own with the modernizing influence of the microphone. Its antecedent came out of minstrelsy and vaudeville, but the emphasis in these crooner’s songs lay in their paeans to mother, or mammy songs. With the advent of radio and improved sound technology, modern versions of this intimate style of singing dominated the airwaves and became America’s firs…
The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music
I was very excited when I first received Jonathan C. Friedman’s Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music. The collection of 28 essays is designed to “analyze the trends, musical formats...
Tell Tchaikovsky the News
Journal Article Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Rock ‘n’ Roll, the Labor Question, and the Musicians' Union, 1942–1968 Get access Michael James Roberts. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. xvi, 254 pp. Cloth, $84.95. Paper, $23.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Page 1312, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav010 Published: 01 March 2015
The Nashville Way
"The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City." The Oral History Review, 41(1), pp. 155–156
Frontier Figures
Journal Article Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West Get access Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West. By Beth E. Levy. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xvi, 449 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $34.95.) Kenneth J. Bindas Kenneth J. Bindas Kent State UniversityKent, Ohio [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Crossroads
Sunbelt Revolution
Brave New Words
Journal Article Brave New Words: Strategies of Language and Communication in the United States of the 1930s. Ed. by Biancamaria Bosco Tedeschini Lalli and Maurizio Vaudagna. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999. viii, 269 pp. Paper, $59.50, ISBN 90-5383-592-X.) Get access Kenneth J. Bindas Kenneth J. Bindas Kent State University, Trumbull, Warren, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
The History of Jazz
Journal Article The History of Jazz. By Ted Gioia. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. viii, 471 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-19-509081-0. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-1-512653-X.) Get access Kenneth J. Bindas Kenneth J. Bindas Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 265–266, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568011 Published: 0…
Neon in the Desert
Robert Sherwood is best remembered for the plays Idiot's Delight (1936), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938),and There Shall Be No Night (1940) and the political biography Roosevelt and Hopkins (1949). But one of his most insightful works examines the depression era and human reactions to it. The Petrified Forest, written in 1935, takes place in a small diner/gas station on the edge of the Arizona desert. Owned by Gramps Maple and operated by his gran…
The Cultural Front
All of This Music Belongs to the Nation
Journal Article All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society. By Kenneth J. Bindas. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. xiv, 164 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-87049-909-2.) Get access Thomas H. Brown Thomas H. Brown University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 2…
A Society Without Soul
Image Is Everything? Television and the Counterculture Message in the 1960s
(1994). IMAGE IS EVERYTHING? Television and the Counterculture Message in the 1960s. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 22-37
Takin’ Care of Business”
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCraig HoustonKenneth J. Bindas is Assistant Professor of History at West Georgia College. Craig Houston is Instructor of History at the University of Toledo
The Triumph of Vulgarity
Cowboy Presidents
Journal Article Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics since 1990 Get access Cowboy Presidents: The Frontier Myth and U.S. Politics since 1990. By David A Smith. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. x, 277 pp. $36.95.) Kenneth J Bindas Kenneth J Bindas Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 109, Issue 1, June 2022, Pages…
Frontier Figures
Journal Article Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West Get access Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West. By Beth E. Levy. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xvi, 449 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $34.95.) Kenneth J. Bindas Kenneth J. Bindas Kent State UniversityKent, Ohio [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
Image Is Everything? Television and the Counterculture Message in the 1960s
(1994). IMAGE IS EVERYTHING? Television and the Counterculture Message in the 1960s. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 22-37
Western Mystic
Journal Article Western Mystic: Bob Nolan and His Songs Get access Kenneth J. Bindas Kenneth J. Bindas doctoral candidate in history University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 4, October 1986, Pages 439–456, https://doi.org/10.2307/969018 Published: 01 October 1986
You Say You Want a Revolution
Takin’ Care of Business”
Additional informationNotes on contributorsCraig HoustonKenneth J. Bindas is Assistant Professor of History at West Georgia College. Craig Houston is Instructor of History at the University of Toledo
The Triumph of Vulgarity
Ritchie Valens
Journal Article Ritchie Valens: The First Latino Rocker Get access Ritchie Valens: The First Latino Rocker. By Mendheim Beverly. (Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1987. 153 pp. Illustrations, bibliography. $10.00, paper.) Kenneth J. Bindas Kenneth J. Bindas Western State College of Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, February 1989, Pages …
A Society Without Soul
Image Is Everything? Television and the Counterculture Message in the 1960s
(1994). IMAGE IS EVERYTHING? Television and the Counterculture Message in the 1960s. Journal of Popular Film and Television: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 22-37
All of This Music Belongs to the Nation
Journal Article All of This Music Belongs to the Nation: The WPA's Federal Music Project and American Society. By Kenneth J. Bindas. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. xiv, 164 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-87049-909-2.) Get access Thomas H. Brown Thomas H. Brown University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 2…
The Cultural Front
Neon in the Desert
Robert Sherwood is best remembered for the plays Idiot's Delight (1936), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938),and There Shall Be No Night (1940) and the political biography Roosevelt and Hopkins (1949). But one of his most insightful works examines the depression era and human reactions to it. The Petrified Forest, written in 1935, takes place in a small diner/gas station on the edge of the Arizona desert. Owned by Gramps Maple and operated by his gran…
The History of Jazz
Journal Article The History of Jazz. By Ted Gioia. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. viii, 471 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-19-509081-0. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 0-1-512653-X.) Get access Kenneth J. Bindas Kenneth J. Bindas Kent State University, Kent, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 265–266, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568011 Published: 0…
Brave New Words
Journal Article Brave New Words: Strategies of Language and Communication in the United States of the 1930s. Ed. by Biancamaria Bosco Tedeschini Lalli and Maurizio Vaudagna. (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999. viii, 269 pp. Paper, $59.50, ISBN 90-5383-592-X.) Get access Kenneth J. Bindas Kenneth J. Bindas Kent State University, Trumbull, Warren, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American H…
Sunbelt Revolution
Crossroads
Frontier Figures
Journal Article Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West Get access Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West. By Beth E. Levy. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. xvi, 449 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $34.95.) Kenneth J. Bindas Kenneth J. Bindas Kent State UniversityKent, Ohio [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of…
The Nashville Way
"The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City." The Oral History Review, 41(1), pp. 155–156
The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music
I was very excited when I first received Jonathan C. Friedman’s Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music. The collection of 28 essays is designed to “analyze the trends, musical formats...
Tell Tchaikovsky the News
Journal Article Tell Tchaikovsky the News: Rock ‘n’ Roll, the Labor Question, and the Musicians' Union, 1942–1968 Get access Michael James Roberts. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. xvi, 254 pp. Cloth, $84.95. Paper, $23.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Page 1312, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav010 Published: 01 March 2015
Allison McCracken. Real Men Don’t Sing
Allison McCracken documents the rise and decline of a style of singing—crooning—that came into its own with the modernizing influence of the microphone. Its antecedent came out of minstrelsy and vaudeville, but the emphasis in these crooner’s songs lay in their paeans to mother, or mammy songs. With the advent of radio and improved sound technology, modern versions of this intimate style of singing dominated the airwaves and became America’s firs…
Depression Folk
Ronald D. Cohen has written numerous books and articles about the influence of folk music. In Depression Folk he examines key folk artists such as Leadbelly, Josh White, Woody Guthrie, and Gene Autry, as well as collectors such as John Lomax and Alan Lomax—to “focus on the role that folk music played in the clash between capitalism and the emerging grassroots proletarian movements” (p. 6). Make no mistake, Cohen knows his folk music, as the first…
Calling Me Home
Somebody is really up there!’
Machines of Youth
Machines of Youth is about men and boys and their relationship with the automobile in the last century. While Gary S. Cross offers a chapter on the low-rider movement within the Hispanic community and makes occasional references to African Americans and women, the book is mainly about white, primarily working-class boys and men and their desire to modify cars into hot rods ready to cruise the strip, hoping to attract women, to race the cars in th…
The crossroads of identity
It was clear as the economic crash deepened in the 1930 s that the American people were suffering psychological shock. President Hoover regularly suggested that the economic problems of the country were “largely psychological,” and Roosevelt worried in his inaugural address that the people might succumb to “nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror.” Daniel Starch observed in Faith, Fear and Fortunes (1934) that the “‘New Deal’ is a psychological…
Eric Rauchway. Winter War
Eric Rauchway provides an incisive examination of one of the most significant transfers of presidential power in the last century, as the tensions between the incoming New Deal president Franklin Roosevelt and the outgoing New Era prophet Herbert Hoover provide for engaging reading. Rauchway sets out to correct the notions that FDR’s New Deal was not a well thought-out program before he entered the White House and that Hoover was simply a “victim…
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