03722nam 22006974a 450 991080837240332120200520144314.00-8147-7689-20-8147-6908-X1-4356-0043-610.18574/nyu/9780814769089(CKB)1000000000476561(OCoLC)568022337(CaPaEBR)ebrary10170582(SSID)ssj0000176827(PQKBManifestationID)11153817(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176827(PQKBWorkID)10225624(PQKB)10099766(OCoLC)173511775(MdBmJHUP)muse10474(Au-PeEL)EBL866197(CaPaEBR)ebr10170582(OCoLC)780425959(DE-B1597)547981(DE-B1597)9780814769089(MiAaPQ)EBC866197(EXLCZ)99100000000047656120060531d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrImmigration and American popular culture an introduction /Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick1st ed.New York New York University Pressc20071 online resource (313 p.) Nation of newcomersBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8147-7552-7 0-8147-7553-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-284) and index.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.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.Nation of newcomers.ImmigrantsCultural assimilationPopular cultureUnited StatesUnited StatesEthnic relationsImmigrantsCultural assimilation.Popular culture304.8/73Rubin Rachel1964-1386964Melnick Jeffrey Paul1625387MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808372403321Immigration and American popular culture3960798UNINA