Title
Immigration and American Popular Culture : An Introduction / Rachel Lee Rubin, Jeffrey Melnick.
ISBN
9780814769089
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2006]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814769089.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.8/73
Summary
How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them?Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culture-such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans on rap in the 1970s, and cyberpunk and Asian American zines in the1990s-have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America.Supplemented by a timeline of key events and extensive suggestions for further reading, Immigration and American Popular Culture offers at once a unique history of twentieth century U.S. immigration and an essential introduction to the major approaches to the study of popular culture. Melnick and Rubin go further to demonstrate how completely and complexly the processes of immigration and cultural production have been intertwined, and how we cannot understand one without the other.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Series
Nation of Nations ; ; 4
Available in Other Form
print 9780814775523
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Aliens, Inc.
Chapter 1 Hollywood, 1930: Jewish Gangster Masquerade
Chapter 2 Los Angeles, 1943: Zoot Suit Style, Immigrant Politics
Chapter 3 Broadway, 1957: West Side Story and the Nuyorican Blue
Chapter 4 Monterey, 1967 The Hippies Meet Ravi Shankar
Chapter 5 South Bronx, 1977 Jamaican Migrants, Born Jamericans, and Global Music
Chapter 6 Cyberspace, Y2K: Giant Robots, Asian Punks
Afterword: Chelsea, 2006 Wandering Popular Culture
Appendix: timeline. Prepared by Daniel Rodriguez
Works cited
Index
About the authors
