Fabricating the absolute fake : America in contemporary pop culture / Jaap Kooijman.

By:

Kooijman, Jaap [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9048519551
904851956X
9789048519552
9789048519569

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

306.1 23

LOC classification:

E169.12 .K66 2013

Online resources:

Digital version

Summary: In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce "Americanness." Tracing the ways America has been appropriated by pop culture produced outside the United States, he examines such icons as the Elvis-inspired performer Lee Towers and the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B. This revised edition features a new chapter on Barack Obama's global celebrity and an afterword on teaching American pop culture. Like the first edition, it will prove an illuminating resource for scholars of American culture and popular cultures the world o.

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E-books	Hugenote College Main Campus		Digital version	Not for loan	Only accessible on campus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce "Americanness." Tracing the ways America has been appropriated by pop culture produced outside the United States, he examines such icons as the Elvis-inspired performer Lee Towers and the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B. This revised edition features a new chapter on Barack Obama's global celebrity and an afterword on teaching American pop culture. Like the first edition, it will prove an illuminating resource for scholars of American culture and popular cultures the world o.

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