Immigration and American popular culture : an introduction

Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick

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 the 1990s - 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 20th 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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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 the 1990s - 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 20th 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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書名 Immigration and American popular culture : an introduction
著作者等 Melnick, Jeffrey Paul
Rubin, Rachel Lee
Melnick Jeffrey
Rubin Rachel
シリーズ名 Nation of newcomers : immigrant history as American history
出版元 New York University Press
刊行年月 c2007
ページ数 x, 302 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 9780814775523
9780814775530
NCID BA79313830
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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