Yankee Go Home (& Take Me With U): Americanization and Popular Culture

by George McKay (Editor)

Overview

From Yeah to Yo! our language bears traces of American influence. We can do little to escape the experience 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, see America as still at cultural Cold War? Is our desire for them a symptom of European pop culture's crisis? From blackface 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. George 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850758112
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/01/1997
Series:	Cultural Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Dr George McKay is Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English, and Subject Leader in American Studies at the University of Central Lancashire.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Americanization and Popular Culture George McKay
1. Blackface Minstrels as Cultural Export: England, Australia and South Africa John G. Blair
2. The War of Words: Literature for German POWs in the United States 1943-1944 Ron Robin
3. Star Trek Old and New: From the Alien Embodied to the Alien Imagined Karin Blair
4. The Bohemian Transformed: America, the Malcontent and the Alterations of the1960s John Dean
5. Popular Culture and Political Discourse in American Narratives about Vietnam Yonka Krasteva
6. I Am The King: Cultural Appropriation in Australia's Gothic Graceland Richard Walker
7. American Life by Proxy: Dutch Youth and Sense of Place Mel van Elteren
8. The Origins and Evolution of French Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in the 1980s and 1990s André J.M. Prévos
9. Afterword: Downsizing America George McKay
Notes
Bibliography
Index