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Special Relations - The Americanization of Britain? (Hardcover)
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Special Relations - The Americanization of Britain? (Hardcover)
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"Special Relations" reevaluates Anglo-American cultural exchange by
exploring metropolitan London's culture and counterculture from the
1950s to the 1970s. It challenges a tendency in cultural studies to
privilege local reception and attempts to restore the concept of
Americanization in this critical era of mass tourism, professional
exchange, and media globalization--while acknowledging an important
degree of cultural hybridity and circularity. The study begins with
the influence of American modernism in the built environment and in
"Swinging London" generally, and then moves to its central project,
the re-exploration of British counterculture--the anti-war
movement, student rebellion, hippies, popular music, the
alternative press, and the late Sixties triad of black, feminist,
and gay liberationisms--as intimately tied to American experience
and to American agents of cultural change. "Special Relations"
retrieves these phenomena as more central and enduring in British
metropolitan life than the current orthodoxy allows, and subjects
to sharp critical scrutiny prevalent assertions of cultural
"authenticity" in their British variants. Finally, the book looks
at aspects of the turn against modernism and the counterculture in
the 1970s.
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