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.