Abstract
The chapter focuses on popular culture and how it is an effective mechanism for understanding Depression America. This chapter aims to get get away from rigid adjective labels as much as possible and recognize that while culture may not be seamless, it is connected. It recommends a rethink of a series of attitudes and images that prevent the serious study of popular culture: image of the purely passive mass audience, all forms of culture only popular culture is so thoroughly formulaic, the notion that popular culture was and is invariably “escapist” and the notion that popular culture may not be generally be on the cutting edge of knowledge or style it is therefore not truly an art form. In black folk culture, there is no single overarching thematic matrix. Black folk in and out of slavery used different parts of their expressive culture for different purposes.
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