Fabricating the Absolute Fake - revised edition

• Tác giả: Jaap Kooijman, Project Muse
• ISBN-13: 978-9048519552
• ISBN-13: 978-9089645593
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 306.1 Subcultures
• Thông tin xuất bản: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, �2013.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 online resource 231 pages)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 245918
• Chủ đề: 1. Civilization--American influences; 2. Popular culture; 3. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology; 4. SOCIAL SCIENCE--General; 5. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce "Americanness." Tracing the ways America has been appropriated by pop culture produced outside the United States, he examines such icons as the Elvis-inspired performer Lee Towers and the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B. This revised edition features a new chapter on Barack Obama's global celebrity and an afterword on teaching American pop culture. Like the first edition, it will prove an illuminating resource for scholars of American culture and popular cultures the world o.