Harris, Phil
Harrison, Benjamin
Harvard, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1, 10.1, 11.1
“Havana Affair,”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1.1, 5.1, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
Hayden, Tom
Hays, Will, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
Hays Office, 9.1, 9.2
Hayward, Zab, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 5.1, 7.1
Hearst, William Randolph, 7.1, 8.1
hedonism, itr.1, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 13.1
of 1920s, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 9.1, nts.1
of 1960s, itr.1, 12.1
Hell’s Angels, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 12.1, 13.1
Helm, Levon
Helms, Chet, 10.1, 10.2
“Helter Skelter,”
Henderson, Fletcher, 7.1, 8.1
Hendrix, Jimi, 10.1, nts.1
Henson, Josiah, 3.1, 3.2
hepcats
Herald of Freedom
Hermes, Will
Herskovits, Melville J.
Heth, Joice
Hickok, Wild Bill
Highland Mammoth Boys
hip-hop, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
“Hippie Hop Tour,”
hippies, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1, nts.2
commercialization of, 12.1, 12.2
in New York
Historie (Bradford), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4
History of the Big Bonanza (De Quille)
Ho, Jeff
hoaxes, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 10.1
banana, 10.1, 10.2
of Barnum, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 10.1
GE, 13.1, 13.2
mass
of Twain, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 10.1, nts.1
in Wild West, 4.1, 4.2
of Yippies
Hobbes, Thomas, 2.1, 4.1
Hoffman, Abbie, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1
Hoffman, Frederick J.
Hoffman, Julius, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1
Hog Farm
Holbrook, Hal
Holland, liberal tolerance in
Hollywood, see motion pictures
Hollywood Ten
Home to Harlem (McKay)
Homo Ludens (Huizinga)
homosexuality, itr.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1, nts.1
Hoofer’s Club
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopkins, Philip
“Hot Fun in the Summertime,”
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 10.1, 11.1, 11.2
Howells, William Dean
Howl
Hughes, Langston, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, nts.1, nts.2, nts.3
Hughes, Lynn
Huizinga, Johan
Human Be-In
Human Roulette (Human Whirlpool; Social Mixer), 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1
Human Switchboard
humbug, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 7.1
Humbug
Humbugs of the World (Barnum)
Hume, David
humor:
gallows
punk
sense of, 4.1, 10.1
see also jokes
humorists
Humphrey, Hubert
Humphrey, Moses
Hungary
Hunter’s Point riots, 10.1, 10.2
Hurston, Nora Zeale, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, nts.1, nts.2
Hussy, The
Hutcheson, Francis, 2.1, 2.2
Hutchinson, Thomas, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Iggy Pop
“I Got You Babe,”
“(I Live for) Cars and Girls,”
immigration, immigrants, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1, 11.1
in California, 4.1, nts.1
I’m No Angel
impressment, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Improv Everywhere, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1
improvisation, 10.1, 10.2
inclusivity, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 13.1
multiracial, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1
Independence Day (Fourth of July), 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
Independent, The
Independent Advertiser
Indian Removal Act
individualism, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 13.1
commercialism vs., 6.1, nts.1
communitarianism vs.
see also do-it-yourself
Infants of the Spring (Thurman)
Infinite Jest (Wallace)
Inns of Court and Chancery, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
“Insanitarium,”
insanity
insecurity, fun as alternative to
intellectuals, 3.1, 7.1, 8.1, nts.1
enlightened
Internet, DIY heritage of
Internet Age
“Invisible Circus: The Rite of Spring, The,”
Irish Americans, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 7.1, 9.1
in Bowery culture
Irving, Washington
It, 6.1, 7.1
“It girls,” 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
Jackson, Andrew, itr.1, 3.1, 5.1
Jackson Age, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2
Jack Tars, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1, 8.1, nts.1, nts.2
Jagger, Mick
Jake (char.)
Jamaica, Jamaicans
James, King Leon, 9.1, 13.1
James, king of England
Janie (char.)
Japanese Americans, relocation of
jazz, itr.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 13.1
dance, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1
as disreputable
roots of, 7.1, 7.2
as term
trends in
Jazz Age, itr.1–xiii, itr.2, itr.3, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, nts.1, nts.2
duration of
“joyous revolt” in, 8.1, 11.1, nts.1
“Jazz at Home” (Rogers), 8.1, 8.2, nts.1
“jazz baby,” 7.1, 8.1
“Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret” (Hughes)
Jazz emotions
Jazz Singer, The
Jefferson, Thomas, 5.1, nts.1
Jefferson Airplane
Jeffersonians
Jewett, Sarah Orne
Jews, 7.1, 7.2, nts.1
in Hollywood
Jim Crow (char.), 5.1, 10.1
jitterbug, 7.1, 9.1
Jo (fictional politician)
John (slave character)
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, Frank
Johnson, Helene
Johnson, James P.
Johnson, James Weldon, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, Matthew, 10.1, 10.2
Johnson, Samuel, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1
Johnson, William Henry (“What Is It?”)
JoJo the Dog-Faced Boy
jokes, itr.1, 4.1
“getting it,” 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, nts.1
ribald, see also satire
Jolly Fellows, 9.1, 13.1
Jolson, Al
Jones, Annie
Jones, Christopher
Jones, Washoe Mike
Jonson, Ben
Joplin, Janis, 10.1, 11.1
“Josh” (Twain’s pseudonym)
Juba (Giouba; dance), 3.1, 4.1, 5.1
“Juba” (William Henry Lane), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
“Judy Is a Punk,”
Julia (Harris’s daughter-in-law)
Julian, Herbert Fauntleroy
Juneteenth
juvenile delinquency
Kames, Lord
Katrina, Hurricane
Kaufman, Andy
Keaton, Buster, 7.1, 7.2
Keith, Benjamin Franklin “B. F.,” 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.1, 12.1
“Keith Circuit,”
Kellogg, A. N.
Kennedy, Robert
Kent State massacre
Kerouac, Jack, 10.1, 10.2
Kesey, Faye
Kesey, K
en, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 11.1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
King Charles (Pinkster figure), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 8.1
King Oliver, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
King Philip’s War (1675), 1.1, 1.2
Kinney, Abbot, 13.1
Kioster and Bial’s Hall
Kmen, Henry A.
Knopf, Alfred A., 8.1, nts.1
Knowles, Charles
Knowles riots, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, nts.1
Krassner, Paul, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, nts.1
Kubo, Shogo, 13.1
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), itr.1, 1.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Kurshan, Nancy
Kushner, Anita, 11.1, 11.2
Kweli, Tasha
“Lace” hoax, 11.1, 11.2
Lady Lou (char.)
La Honda, Calif., 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Lake, Steve
Lake Tahoe
Lakotas
La Mortadella
Lancet
Landout, Billy
landslide hoax
Lane, William Henry “Juba,” 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Lange Dorothea
Larsen, Nella
Latinos, 8.1, 9.1, 13.1
Latrobe, Benjamin H.
“Laughers” (Hughes), 8.1, nts.1
Laugh-In
Laughlin, Chan
laws:
flouting of, itr.1–xiii, itr.2, itr.3, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1
improvised
J. Adams’s faith in
Levitican, 1.1, 1.2
reform in enforcement of
repressive, itr.1–xvii, 1.1, nts.1
Wild West’s lack of, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
lazzi (comic routines)
League for Spiritual Discovery
Leary, Timothy, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4
Le Baron, William
Leblanc, Laurine
Lee, Bruce, 13.1, 13.2
Leech, Samuel
Leggett, William
Legion of Decency
Leimert Park
leisure, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, nts.1
LeMothe, Ferdinand (Jelly Roll Morton), 7.1, 7.2, nts.1
Lerner, Michael A.
Leroy, Sally (char.)
Les Deux Magots
“Let’s Dance,”
“Let’s Do the Black Bottom,”
“Let’s Misbehave,”
Levine, Lawrence W., 3.1, 6.1
Levitt, Bill
Levittowns
Lewis, David Levering, 8.1, 8.2
Lewis, Sinclair
Lhamon, W. T., Jr.
liberty, see freedom
“Liberty Song,”
Liberty Tree
Life, 8.1, 12.1, 12.2
lightbox shows, 10.1, 10.2
Lincoln Gardens
Lincoln Park (Chicago)
Lincoln Park (New Orleans)
Lindbergh, Charles, 7.1, 7.2
Lindsay, Vachel, 8.1, 8.2
Lindy hop, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1, 13.1
Lippmann, Walter
literature:
African-American, 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, nts.1
high-modernist
incendiary
of women, 8.1, 9.1
see also specific writers and works
Little Big Horn, battle at
Little Egypt, 6.1, 6.2
Little Wolf (char.)
Livingston, Jenny
Lloyd, Harold
local color
Locke, Alain, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, nts.1
Locke, John, 2.1, nts.1
Locofocos
Lomax, Alan
Lomax, John, 3.1, 9.1
London, England, 1.1, 4.1
Longshoreman’s Hall, 10.1, 10.2
Los Angeles, Calif., itr.1, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Lott, Eric
Louisiana Purchase
Louis-Philippe, king of France
Love in Greenwich Village (Dell)
Lowe, Uncle Jim
Lower East Side
Loyal Nine, 2.1, 2.2
loyalty review boards
LSD (acid), 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Luciano, Lucky
lynchings, 4.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 5.1
MacMurray, Lillita
Macready, William Charles
Macy’s
Mad Bomber
Madison, James
Mad Magazine, 10.1, 12.1, 13.1
magazines, 10.1, 12.1
fan, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
women’s
zines, fanzines, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5
Maier, Pauline
Maine, 4.1, 5.1
Major, Clarence
Malcolm X, 9.1, 10.1
Manhattan Casino
Manhattan Hotel
Manitoba, Handsome Dick
Manson, Charles
Mantrap
marathons, dance, itr.1–xiii, itr.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9.1
March, Joseph Moncure
Marcus, Greil
Marcuse, Herbert, 10.1, 11.1
Mardi Gras Indians
Mardi Gras parades
Margy (char.)
marijuana, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1, 12.1
Marinoff, Fania
marketing:
advertising in, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 12.1, 13.1
of counterculture, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1
of fun, 6.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2
of Native Americans
Marsh, Reginald
Marshall, James W.
Martha’s Vineyard
Martha Washingtonians
Martin, Dick
Marx Brothers, 9.1, 10.1
Marxism, 9.1, 11.1
Maryland, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
masks
Mason, Charlotte Osgood, 8.1, 9.1
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1.1, 2.1
Massachusetts tribe, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5
“Master Race Rock,”
Mather, Cotton, 1.1, 3.1, nts.1
Maugham, W. Somerset
May, Asa and Margaret
May Day festivals, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, nts.1
Mayflower, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Mayflower Compact (1620), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 4.1, nts.1
Mayhew, Jonathan
“May-Pole of Merry Mount, The” (Hawthorne), 5.1, 13.1, nts.1, nts.2
maypoles, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1, 13.1
MC5 (band), 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2
McCarthy, Eugene
McCarthy, Joe
McCoy, Horace
McDonald’s
McGonigal, Jane, 13.1, nts.1
McIntosh, Ebenezer
McKane, John Y., 6.1, 6.2
McKay, Claude, nts.1, nts.2
McLuhan, Marshall, 11.1, 11.2
McMillan, John
McMurtry, Larry
McNeil, Legs
Mechanic’s Hall
Medusa (MC)
“Mellow Yellow,”
Meltzer, Richard
Melville, Herman
Melvin, Milan
Mencken, H. L., 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Merlyn’s Club, 13.1
Mermaid Parade
Merry Mount colony, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, nts.1, nts.2
destruction of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
founding of, itr.1, 1.1
legacy of, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 13.1, nts.1
May Day festival at
Merry Pranksters, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 13.2
Metesky, George
Methodists, itr.1, 3.1
Metropolitan
Mexico, Mexicans, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1
MGM
Michigan, University of
middle class:
activism of
; African-American, 8.1, 8.2
commercial entertainment and, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2
in counterculture, 10.1, 11.1
mockery of
propriety of, itr.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 8.1
religion in
rise of, 6.1, 6.2, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
women
Middle Passage, 1.1
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 8.1, 8.2, nts.1
Millbrook, N.Y.
millennium era
Millinder, Lucky
millionaires
Mills, Florence
Milton, John
Mineo, Sal
miners, itr.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 5.1, 6.1
miners’ ball, 4.1, 4.2, 10.1, 13.1
Minns, Albert, 9.1, 9.2
Minor Threat
Minstrel Show, A: Civil Rights in a Cracker Barrel, 10.1, 10.2
minstrelsy, itr.1–xx, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1
see also blackface minstrelsy
Mississippi River, as analogy for fun, itr.1–xxiv, 6.1, 11.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
Mitchell, William
Mixon, Wayne
mockery, itr.1, itr.2
Modern Times, itr.1, 9.1
Mohawks, Sons of Liberty disguised as, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 13.1
Monkees
“monkey warfare,”
Montrell, Charles
Moonshine
Moore, Colleen
Moore, Ryan
Moose (DJ)
Moreno, Antonio
Morgan, J. P.
Morgan, Marcyliena
Mormons
Morse, Hazel (char.)
Morton, Jelly Roll (Ferdinand LeMothe), 7.1, 7.2, nts.1
Morton, Thomas, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 10.1, nts.1, nts.2
Bradford vs., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
colony of, see Merry Mount colony
legacy of, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
poem of
Mose (char.), 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 10.1, 12.1
Mose in California
Mose in China
mosh pits, itr.1, 13.1, 13.2
Mothers of Invention
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals (MPAPAI)
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA)
motion pictures, itr.1, 6.1, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, nts.1
in counterculture, 10.1, 10.2, 12.1, 12.2
golden age of, 9.1, 9.2
in 1920s, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
suppression of
Mummers’ Parade
music:
African-American legacy in, itr.1, itr.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 7.1, 9.1, 12.1; see also Jazz Age
DIY in
psychedelic, 10.1, 12.1
rebellion through
in revelry, 4.1, nts.1
in slavery, 3.1, 3.2
in Wild West
women’s liberation in
see also dancing; songs; various genres
Musical Courier
My Ántonia (Cather)
My Bondage and My Freedom (Douglass)
“My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (Hawthorne)
“My Pussy Is a Gangsta,”
Myth of the Negro Past (Herskovits)
Nance, Doyle
Narrative (Douglass)
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, 3.1