Guido Culture and Italian American Youth

From Bensonhurst to Jersey Shore
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-03292-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Italian and Italian American Studies

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 American culture and, simultaneously, the making of a new ethnic subject. Emerging from a wave of Italian immigration after World War II in outer borough neighborhoods such as Bensonhurst, the story of the Guido is an Italian American story, symbolizing the negotiation of a negatively privileged ethnicity within American society. Tricarico takes up questions about the definition of Guido, the role of disco, and the identity politics of Jersey Shore in order to reconsider the significance of Guido for the study of Italian American ethnicity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tricarico, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Tricarico is Professor of Sociology at Queensborough Community College, CUNY, where he has taught since 1977.