Book Description
This collaborative volume addresses a number of central questions from a variety of disciplinary and methodological angles: What do Germans envision when they speak of the "Americanization" of their culture? How do artists respond to today's media culture? Precisely what are we thinking of when using terms like "pop" or "popular" culture? How does "pop" culture in the German imagination relate to "U.S." culture? Can one still speak meaningfully of an "Americanized" German culture? What does this mean for German national identity during the 20th century, and for today's multi-ethnic German culture?
This volume fills a gap in existing scholarship by investigating for the first time German popular culture of the 20th century in its ambivalent representations of Americanization and globalization from a multidisciplinary, international perspective.
Agnes C. Mueller is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, Columbia.
About the author
Agnes C. Mueller is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina.
