TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kooijman,Jaap
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Fabricating the Absolute Fake - revised edition
SN  - 9789048519552
AV  - E169.12 .K66 2013
U1  - 306.1 
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Civilization
KW  - American influences
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76699/
ER  -