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"Rachel Rubin and Jeff Melnick show us the skinny on pop's
melting pot. The cauldron does not burn off immigrant character,
creating American sameness, but intensifies its many tastes. Ladle
after ladle of ethnic infusions go into the pot--"Scarface" to
"Gypsy Punks," pachuco zoot suiters to Ravi Shankar, Jimmy Cliff to
"West Side Story," They compound the terms of race and place until
they reform the mainstream. And, suddenly, that old wasp canon has
become just another ethnic style."
--W. T. Lhamon, Jr., author, most recently, of "Jump Jim Crow: Lost
Plays, Lyrics, and Street Prose of the First Atlantic Popular
Culture"
aA thought-provoking examination of immigration
historya--"Choice"
"A sprawling and uniquely synthetic account of the role
immigrants have played as performers, entrepreneurs, and as the
subjects of the mass culture industry. Brings a stunning,
transnational array of immigrant cultural forms, immigration
policies, and cohorts together in new and important ways."
--Rachel Ida Buff, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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 onrap 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.
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