Immigration and American Popular Culture An Introduction
-70%
Availability: In Stock

Immigration and American Popular Culture An Introduction

SKU: 9780814776896

Original price was: $29.83.Current price is: $8.95.

Access Immigration and American Popular Culture An Introduction Now. Discount up to 90%

Categories: ,

Additional information

Full Title

Immigration and American Popular Culture An Introduction
Author(s)

Rachel Lee Rubin, Jeffrey Melnick
Edition
ISBN

9780814776896, 9780814775530, 9780814775523
Publisher

NYU Press
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

A unique study that hones in on the cross-section and interdependency of immigration and American cultural production 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.

Related products