1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778129203321

Autore

Rubin Rachel <1964->

Titolo

Immigration and American popular culture [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-7689-2

0-8147-6908-X

1-4356-0043-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Nation of newcomers

Altri autori (Persone)

MelnickJeffrey Paul

Disciplina

304.8/73

Soggetti

Immigrants - Cultural assimilation

Popular culture - United States

United States Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hollywood, 1930 : Jewish gangster masquerade -- Los Angeles, 1943 : zoot suit style, immigrant politics -- Broadway, 1957 : West Side Story and the Nuyorican blues -- Monterey, 1967 : the hippies meet Ravi Shankar -- South Bronx, 1977 : Jamaican migrants, born Jamericans, and global music -- Cyberspace, y2k : giant robots, Asian punks -- Afterword : Chelsea, 2006 ; wandering popular culture.

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910422649503321

Titolo

Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 3 : Food Legumes / / edited by Satbir Singh Gosal, Shabir Hussain Wani

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-47306-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 430 p. 40 illus., 31 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

635.65

Soggetti

Plant biotechnology

Plant genetics

Nutrition

Agriculture

Plant Biotechnology

Plant Genetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword -- Preface -- Efficient Breeding of Pulse Crops -- Advances in Chickpea Breeding and Genomics for Varietal Development and Traits Improvement in India -- Conventional and Biotechnological Approaches for Trait Targeted Improvement in Lentil -- Updates Pigeonpea Breeding and Genomics for Yield Improvement in India -- "Genomics-Assisted Breeding Green Gram (Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek) for Accelerating Genetic Gain" -- Breeding For High Yielding and Disease Resistant Urdbean Cultivars -- Lentil Breeding in Genomic Era: Present Status and Future Prospects -- Chickpea Breeding for Abiotic Stress: Breeding Tools and ‘Omics’ Approaches for Enhancing Genetic



Gain -- Recent Advances in Mungbean Breeding – A Perspective -- Genetic Advancement in Dry Pea (Pisum Sativum L.): Retrospect and Prospect -- Translational Genomics and Breeding in Soybean -- Efficient Improvement in an Orphan Legume, Horsegram, Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdi, using Conventional and Molecular Approaches -- Molecular and Conventional Breeding Strategies for Improving Biotic Stress Resistance in Common Bean -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Plant improvement has shifted its focus from yield, quality and disease resistance to factors that will enhance commercial export, such as early maturity, shelf life and better processing quality. Conventional plant breeding methods aiming at the improvement of a self-pollinating crop, such as wheat, usually take 10-12 years to develop and release of the new variety. During the past 10 years, significant advances have been made and accelerated methods have been developed for precision breeding and early release of crop varieties. The proposed volume work thus plans to summarize concepts dealing with germplasm enhancement and development of improved varieties based on innovative methodologies that include doubled haploidy, marker assisted selection, marker assisted background selection, genetic mapping, genomic selection, high-throughput genotyping, high-throughput phenotyping, mutation breeding, reverse breeding, transgenic breeding, shuttle breeding, speed breeding, low cost high-throughput field phenotyping, etc. It will be an important reference with special focus on accelerated development of improved crop varieties.