Immigration and American Popular Culture – An Introduction Rubin Melnick

Immigration and American Popular CultureAn Introduction\nAuthor(s): Rachel Lee Rubin, Jeffrey Melnick\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814775523, 978-0814775523\nSynopsis\nA unique study that hones in on the cross-section and interdependency of immigration and American cultural production\n How does a 'national' popular culture form and grow over time in a nation comprised of immigrants? How have immigrants used popular culture in America, and how has it used them?\n Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how specific trends in popular culturesuch as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans on rap in the 1970s, and cyberpunk.