The Seven Lively Arts Gilbert Seldes

This book, first published in 1924 and brought up to date in 1957 marked the begining of serious criticism in America of the popular arts: comic strips, motion pictures, musical comedy, vaudeville, radio, popular music and the dance. This is a reprint of the 1957 edition and the author looks back over the decades since the book was first published and comments on tohe predictions that cmae true and those that didn't.