"here, There and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture by Wagnleitner, Reinhold

"here, There and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781584650355)

Author: Reinhold Wagnleitner
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American popular culture is everywhere. All over the world, kids wear Levis, radios blare rap songs, television...
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"here, There and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture by Wagnleitner, Reinhold

"here, There and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture

$35.00 $35.00
"here, There and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture by Wagnleitner, Reinhold

"here, There and Everywhere": The Foreign Politics of American Popular Culture

$35.00 $35.00
Format: Paperback
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American popular culture is everywhere. All over the world, kids wear Levis, radios blare rap songs, television stations broadcast American programs, and Hollywood movies draw huge audiences. Does this massive Americanization of the globe represent some sinister form of cultural imperialism? Alternatively, do audiences and consumers in the importing countries accept American movies, music, and television programs because they match local trends and desires? Do receiving communities transform these products to fit their own needs, to the point where they are no longer American but in fact have become indigenous? And who is in charge of all of this, anyway? Is it Wall Street, Madison Avenue, the Pentagon, the CIA, or Hollywood? Is it, at least partly, local economic and political elites in the receiving countries? Or is it simply the people, nationalities be damned? These are the questions at the heart of the essays collected in Here, There and Everywhere. Essays by 23 authors from 14 countries cover topics from Japan to Spain, Nigeria to Russia, and from West Germany to East Germany (a distance that seemed to be further than travelling to the moon, yet was covered by rock 'n' roll most easily, despite the wall). In five sections, they examine the historical background, the impact of Hollywood, the power of American popular music from jazz to rock 'n' roll and rap, and the popularity of as well as resistance to American popular culture in particular countries.

Author: Reinhold Wagnleitner
ISBN-10: 1584650354
ISBN-13: 9781584650355
Publisher: University Press of New England
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2000
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.94w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2000 pg. 140

About the Author
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).

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