Yankee Go Home & Take Me With U

by McKay, George

• ISBN13: 9781850758112
• ISBN10: 1850758115
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 7
Notes on Contributors	p. 8
Introduction: Americanization and Popular Culture	p. 11
Blackface Minstrels as Cultural Export: England, Australia, South Africa	p. 53
The War of Words: Literature for German POWs in the United States 1943-1944	p. 67
Star Trek Old and New: From the Alien Embodied to the Alien Imagined	p. 78
The Bohemian Transformed: America, the Malcontent and the Alterations of the 1960s	p. 89
Popular Culture and Political Discourse in American Narratives about Vietnam	p. 104
I Am the King: Cultural Appropriation in Australia's Gothic Graceland	p. 117
American Life by Proxy: Dutch Youth and Sense of Place	p. 131
The Origins and Evolution of French Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture in the 1980s and 1990s	p. 146
Afterword: Downsizing America	p. 161
Notes	p. 166
Bibliography	p. 174
Index	p. 188
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