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Immigration and American popular culture : an introduction /

Rubin, Rachel, 1964-

Immigration and American popular culture : an introduction / Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick. - New York : New York University Press, c2007. - x, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Nation of newcomers .

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.

0814775535 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780814775530 (cloth : alk. paper) 0814775527 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780814775523 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2006017648


Immigrants--Cultural assimilation.
Popular culture--United States.


United States--Ethnic relations.

JV6465 / .R83 2007

304.8/73

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