Modular America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Emergence of an American WayBloomsbury Academic, 2.9.1988 - 182 sivua While the attempt to understand Americanness in terms of our beliefs and mentality is all too familiar, Blair's approach to the origins of American culture opens up previously unexplored perspectives. Focusing on the uniquely American tendency to organize cultural artifacts out of component parts rather than structured wholes, he looks at the emergence of this phenomenon as it has affected cultural domains as diverse as manufacturing, architecture, education, and jazz. The significance of modularity opens new perspectives on American culture as a whole. |
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Modular America: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the Emergence of an American Way John G. Blair Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 1988 |
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American culture American football American innovation American modularity American Studies American System architecture artifacts ballads basic blues Brown University Cambridge Child ballads Church classical colonial conceptions Constitution context cross-cultural curricular curriculum defined disestablishment distinctively American diverse domains early Eli Whitney emergence emphasis England English equivalent Europe European example factors football genre Gunther Schuller Harvard University Press Herman Melville History ican identified ideology implications implicit important improvisation individual industrial instances interchangeable jazz Jefferson John land Leaves of Grass London Football Association machines major modern modular modular structures modular systems musket nineteenth century open-ended organization original ownership Oxford University Press perspective play players poem poetic poetry political practice principle recombinable relevant religion religious rugby rules Sacvan Bercovitch sense Siegfried Giedion skyscraper stanzas student System of Manufactures traditional United University of Geneva Whitman whole William William LeBaron Jenney York