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9781584650355

Here, There, and Everywhere

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    9781584650355

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    1584650354

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of New England
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Summary

Essays analyzing the stunning global success of American popular culture from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows to the Internet as the new American frontier.

Author Biography

REINHOLD WAGNLEITNER, Associate Professor of Modern History at the University of Salzburg and past President of the Austrian Association for American Studies, also played and sang in Austrian pop, rock, and jazz bands. The English translation of his Coca-Colonization and the Cold War (1994) won the Stuart L. Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

ELAINE TYLER MAY, Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota, was a recent President of the American Studies Association and a Fulbright Distinguished Professor of American History at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her books include Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (revised edition, 2000), and Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness (1995).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Here, There, and Everywhere: Introduction
1(16)
Reinhold Wagnleitner
Elaine Tyler May
PART I Background
First Steps toward Globalization: Nineteenth-Century Exports of American Entertainment Forms
17(17)
John G. Blair
The Americanization of South Africa
34(30)
James T. Campbell
No Innocents Abroad: The Salzburg Impetus and American Studies in Europe
64(19)
Oliver Schmidt
PART II The World of Hollywood
Selling America via the Silver Screen? Efforts to Manage the Projection of American Culture Abroad, 1942-1947
83(17)
Thedore A. Wilson
Dreams in a Dictatorship: Hollywood and Franco's Spain, 1939-1956
100(16)
Aurora Bosch
M. Fernanda del Rincon
Invasion and Counterattack: Italian and American Film Relations in the Postwar Period
116(16)
Giuliana Muscio
Programmed for Domination: U.S. Television Broadcasting and Its Effects on Nigerian Culture
132(17)
Nosa Owens-Ibie
PART III Rock, Rap, and All That Jazz
Jammin' on the Champs-Elysees: Jazz, France, and the 1950s
149(14)
Elizabeth Vihlen
``Satchmo Blows Up the World'': Jazz, Race, and Empire during the Cold War
163(16)
Penny M. Von Eschen
Swingin' under Stalin: Russian Jazz during the Cold War and Beyond
179(13)
Michael May
Rock `n' Roll in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1961
192(15)
Thomas Fuchs
How Hip Hop Hit Heidelberg: German Rappers, Rhymes, and Rhythms
207(12)
Christoph Ribbat
PART IV The Empire Strikes Back
Cultural Transformation of John Philip Sousa and Disneyland in Japan
219(8)
Masako Notoji
Consumption of American Pop Culture in Ireland and England
227(15)
Myles Dungan
David Gray
Backlash: An Argument against the Spread of American Popular Culture in Turkey
242(9)
Gulriz Buken
German Unification as Self-Inflicted Americanization: Critical Views on the Course of Contemporary German Development
251(22)
Michael Ermarth
PART V Contemporary Issues
Advertising: The Commodification of American Icons of Freedom
273(15)
Rob Kroes
New Lords of the Global Village? Theories of Media Domination in the Internet Era
288(21)
J. Michael Jaffe
Gabriel Weimann
Encartafication or Emancipation: The Internet as the New American Frontier?
309(20)
Reinhold Wagnleitner
Contributors 329(4)
Index 333

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