Immigration and American popular culture
Subtitle: an introduction
By: Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick.
Contributors: Melnick, Jeffrey Paul.
Series: Nation of newcomers
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780814775530; 9780814775523
Subjects: Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation; Popular culture -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-284) and index.
Table of contents: title: Hollywood, 1930 : Jewish gangster masquerade; title: Los Angeles, 1943 : zoot suit style, immigrant politics; title: Broadway, 1957 : West Side Story and the Nuyorican blues; title: Monterey, 1967 : the hippies meet Ravi Shankar; title: South Bronx, 1977 : Jamaican migrants, born Jamericans, and global music; title: Cyberspace, y2k : giant robots, Asian punks; title: Afterword : Chelsea, 2006 ; wandering popular culture.