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Immigration and American Popular Culture : an Introduction.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Nation of newcomers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 19. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (312 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780814769089 081476908X |