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American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction [#577]
American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction [#577]
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アメリカ文化と聞いて思い浮かべるのはアンクル・サム? 西部劇のカウボーイ? 大リーグやディズニーランドかもしれません。世界にアピールする米国の文化は、異なる人種、階級、ジェンダー、性的指向、世代、地域、実に多様な人が集う故に生じる問題や、あらゆる可能性を排除しないその姿を浮き彫りにするものでもあります。文学、音楽、美術、映画、インターネット、そしてピューリタン(清教徒)からシリコンバレーのIT技術者まで、社会集団別に分け、時系列に解きほぐしながら、文化が国民性の形成に果たす役割を確認します。
  

  • The first book to offer a concise (but still comprehensive) look at the whole of American cultural history
  • Provides a chronological look at the development of American culture, addressing literature, music, art, film, and the rise of the Internet
  • Tells us how previous generations of Americans have imagined themselves, their nation, and their relationship to the world

  
In recent decades, culture—the values, attitudes, beliefs, and myths of a particular society and the objects through which they are organized—has earned prominent stature in the annals of American history. The United States often brings to mind Uncle Sam and the cowboys of the Old West, or the speeches of JFK and lyrics of Madonna. Words and images such as these have the power to represent, or contest, national, civic, and social identities. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of Americans have imagined themselves, their nation, and their relationship to the world and its peoples.

This Very Short Introduction lays out a chronological map of American culture, its thematic currents, and its creation by social groups ranging from the straight-laced Puritans of colonial New England to the techies of today's Silicon Valley. In doing so, it emphasizes the role of culture in the shaping of national identity. Across the lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, generation, and geography, diverse Americans have helped to forge a national culture with an ultimately global reach, inventing stories to underscore the problems and possibilities of an American way of life.

目次: 

List of illustrations
Chapter 1: American culture in red, white and black
Chapter 2: Mass culture and mass politics, 1800—1860
Chapter 3: The Age of the City, 1860—1900
Chapter 4: The rise of culture industry, 1900-1945
Chapter 5: The suburbanization of American culture
Chapter 6: The world wide web of American culture
References
Further reading
Index

著者について: 

Eric Avila, Associate Professor of Chicano Studies, Urban Planning, and History, University of California, Los Angeles
 
Eric Avila is Professor of Chicano Studies, History, and Urban Planning at UCLA. An urban cultural historian, he is the author of Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles and The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City.

商品情報

ISBN : 9780190200589

著者: 
Eric Avila
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168 ページ
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Paperback
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111 x 174 mm
刊行日
2018年08月
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American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction [#577]

American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction [#577]

American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction [#577]