Culturcide and Non-Identity across American Culture
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Culturcide and Non-Identity across American Culture

  1. 275 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Culturcide and Non-Identity across American Culture

About this book

It goes without saying that identity has long been a recurrent topic in studies of American culture. The struggle between group sameness and individual uniqueness is a common issue in understanding diversity in the United States on several levels—including how our differences have not always resulted in national celebration. Terms such as "hybridity," "performativity," "transnationalism," and "border zones" are part of the current theoretical vocabulary and, for some, deploy a fresh language of possibility, one promising to undermine the conformist values of monocultural perspectives. To that end, Culturcide and Non-Identity across American Culture explores theories and practices of identity from a broad perspective to grasp how varied, diffuse, and distorted they can be, especially when that identity seems boringly familiar. The subjects range from hip-hop parodies to punk preppies to pachuco-ska, thus crossing the lines of genre, medium, and discipline to blur the borderline dividing the kinds of texts to which these theories can "legitimately" be applied.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Culturcide and Non-Identity across American Culture
  3. Culturcide and Non-Identity across American Culture
  4. Contents
  5. Permissions Acknowledgment
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1
  8. Paradigm Shift
  9. Chapter 2
  10. The Sound That Binds
  11. Chapter 3
  12. Genre as Race, Race as Genre
  13. Chapter 4
  14. Got Hybridity?
  15. Chapter 5
  16. Locating the Punk Preppy (A Speculative Theory)
  17. Conclusion
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author