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While many Americans dismissed the borough of The Bronx in the late 1970s through the belief that »The Bronx is burning,« this study challenges that assumption. As the first explicit study on The Bronx in American popular culture, this book shows how a wide variety of cultural representations engaged in a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina A. Nitzsche argues that popular culture ushered in the poetic resurrection of The Bronx, an artistic and imaginative rebirth, that preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough.
Price: $40.00
Pages: 220
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Cultural Studies
Publication Date:
30 January 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837653113
Format: Paperback
»As Stuart Hall teaches us, popular culture is a site of struggle for and against power, even as it constitutes the stake to be won or lost in that struggle. Sina A. Nitzsche's cultural geography of The Bronx begins the long overdue task of mapping that site, analyzing the most formative representations of that mythic borough through the multifaceted lens of power relations – it theorizes, documents, and contributes to a welcome poetic resurrection.«
Sina A. Nitzsche is the founder of the European Hiphop Studies Network and holds a PhD from the TU Dortmund. Her research interests include hip-hop, popular culture, urban, and media studies. She has also become one of the most renowned commenters on hip-hop culture in German media.
Frontmatter 1
Table of Contents 5
Preface 7
Acknowledgements 9
Introduction Welcome to The Bronx 11
Chapter 1 Approaching the Boogie Down: The Bronx, Popular Culture, and the Poetic Resurrection 17
Chapter 2 The Bronx is Not Lost: Remembering the Success Story in Literature 45
Chapter 3 Zooming in on the Devastation: The Bronx as an Urban Frontier in Film 97
Chapter 4 Creating a New Popular Culture: Re-Imagining the American Dream in Hip-Hop 145
Conclusions Global Dimensions of the Poetic Resurrection 185
Works Cited 197