| Yankee Go Home (& Take Me with U): Americanization and Popular Culture Contributor(s): McKay, George (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474287832 ISBN-13: 9781474287838 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 303.482 |
| Series: Culture Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.03 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): McKay, George: - George McKay is Professor of Media Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK, and an AHRC Leadership Fellow for the Connected Communities programme (2012-15). He was a researcher on the HERA/EUFP7 project Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities (2011-13). Among his books are Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2103), Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden (Frances Lincoln, 2011), Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain (Duke University Press, 2005), Community Music: A Handbook (joint ed. with Pete Moser, Russell House, 2004), Glastonbury: A Very English Fair (Gollancz, 2000), DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain (ed., Verso, 1998), and Senseless Acts of Beauty: Cultures of Resistance since the Sixties (Verso, 1996). He has been Professor in Residence at EFG London Jazz Festival (2014) and Kendal Calling (2011). His website is http: //georgemckay.org. |