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Poetic Resurrection The Bronx in American Popular Culture Sina A. Nitzsche
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nitzsche, Sina A. <p>Sina A. Nitzsche, Technische Universität Dortmund, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Cultural Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- Film.
- Hip-Hop.
- New York City.
- 20th Century.
- The Bronx.
- Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- American Studies.
- Popular Culture.
- Local Subjects:
- Literature.
- Film.
- Hip-Hop.
- New York City.
- 20th Century.
- The Bronx.
- Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- American Studies.
- Popular Culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Nitzsche, Poetic Resurrection The Bronx in American Popular Culture
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2020
- Biography/History:
- Sina A. Nitzsche is the founder of the European Hiphop Studies Network and holds a PhD from the TU Dortmund. Her research interests include hip-hop, popular culture, urban, and media studies. She has also become one of the most renowned commenters on hip-hop culture in German media.
- Summary:
- While many Americans dismissed the borough of The Bronx in the late 1970s through the belief that »The Bronx is burning,« this study challenges that assumption. As the first explicit study on The Bronx in American popular culture, this book shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged in a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina A. Nitzsche argues that popular culture ushered in the poetic resurrection of The Bronx, an artistic and imaginative rebirth, that preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Preface 7 Acknowledgements 9 Introduction Welcome to The Bronx 11 Chapter 1 Approaching the Boogie Down: The Bronx, Popular Culture, and the Poetic Resurrection 17 Chapter 2 The Bronx is Not Lost: Remembering the Success Story in Literature 45 Chapter 3 Zooming in on the Devastation: The Bronx as an Urban Frontier in Film 97 Chapter 4 Creating a New Popular Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream in Hip-Hop 145 Conclusions Global Dimensions of the Poetic Resurrection 185 Works Cited 197
- ISBN:
- 9783839453117
- 3839453119
- OCLC:
- 1198931955
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