Guido Culture and Italian American Youth From Bensonhurst to Jersey Shore /
From Saturday Night Fever to Jersey Shore, Italian American youth in New York City have appropriated-and been appropriated by-popular American culture. Here, Donald Tricarico investigates how Italian ethnicity has been used to fashion Guido as a distinct youth style that signals inclusion in popular...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Italian and Italian American Studies
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Theorizing Italian American Youth Culture
- 2. A Local Italian American Youth Style Tradition: Anticipating Guido
- 3. The Turn to Disco and Other Subcultural Developments
- 4. Becoming Guido: Identifying a Youth Subculture
- 5. Performing Style
- 6. "It's Cool Being Italian": Fashioning an Ethnic Youth Style
- 7. The Local Struggle for Cool
- 8. GUIDOVILLE: Labeling Italian Americans Deviant
- 9. A Party Culture Becomes a Media Spectacle
- 10. Rethinking Italian American Ethnicity: A Middle Space.
