Yankee go home (& take me with U) : Americanization and popular culture / edited by George McKay.

Format:

Book

Series:

Bloomsbury academic collections. Cultural studies.

Bloomsbury academic collections: Cultural studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--Foreign public opinion--Congresses.

Popular culture.

United States--Civilization--1945---Congresses.

United States.

United States--Social life and customs--1971---Foreign public opinion--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Summary:

"We can do little to escape the experience of the United States of America through many media: TV, pop music, youth culture, Hollywood, fast food. How do these traces and images affect us? Do we internalize them, want to be American? Do we (can we?) resist them? Is our desire for them a symptom of European pop culture's crisis? From black face minstrelsy, rap music and fiction to McDonald's, rock festivals and Star Trek, the cultural conception of America is critically unpacked by contributors from Europe, Israel and the USA. McKay rounds off the picture by offering a comprehensive introduction that explains theoretical approaches to Americanization from the thesis of Yankee cultural imperialism to America as site of liberation or fantasy."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Americanization and Popular Culture George McKay

1. Blackface Minstrels as Cultural Export: England, Australia and South Africa John G. Blair

2. The War of Words: Literature for German POWs in the United States 1943-1944 Ron Robin

3. Star Trek Old and New: From the Alien Embodied to the Alien Imagined Karin Blair

4. The Bohemian Transformed: America, the Malcontent and the Alterations of the1960s John Dean

5. Popular Culture and Political Discourse in American Narratives about Vietnam Yonka Krasteva

6. I Am The King: Cultural Appropriation in Australia's Gothic Graceland Richard Walker

7. American Life by Proxy: Dutch Youth and Sense of Place Mel van Elteren

8. The Origins and Evolution of French Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in the 1980s and 1990s André J.M. Prévos

9. Afterword: Downsizing America George McKay

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Originally published: Sheffield : Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.

Assigned new ISBN when reissued as print on demand item in 2016. Title page and verso are reproduced from those of previous issue and include cataloguing in publication data with ISBNs relating to that issue.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474287852

1474287859

9781474287845

1474287840

OCLC:

957700075