Culture unbound: Americanization and everyday life in Sweden
Explaining the mechanisms behind the larger processes of globalization, modernization, and cultural imperialism, this book explores the realms of daily life in Sweden and how cultural impulses are actually integrated in the lives of ordinary people. The dreams, opinions, actions, and consumption des...
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| Summary: | Explaining the mechanisms behind the larger processes of globalization, modernization, and cultural imperialism, this book explores the realms of daily life in Sweden and how cultural impulses are actually integrated in the lives of ordinary people. The dreams, opinions, actions, and consumption desires of individuals with different social backgrounds are considered, determining the significance the processes of Americanization have had in shaping and influencing the form and content of everyday life in Sweden |
| Item Description: | Zugl.: Lund, Univ., Diss., 1997 |
| Physical Description: | 256 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 918911602X |
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Contents
Introduction 8
The Swedish Field 9
.and Beyond 10
Behind the Scenes 16
1. Turbulence in the Flow: Considering
Americanization 18
Through the FlowofTime 19
Speed 21
The Linguistic Measure 23
Points of Norwegian Saturation 26
The Consuming Flow 28
The Impurity of the Uprooted 35
Constructing Local Problems 36
The Weight of Words 39
Swedish and American? 40
2. Becomings and Goings: Looking for Vingandacoa 45
Vingandacoa 48
Children of the Revolution 52
Time, Space, and Fantasy: Vernacular Landscapes
of the Beyond 56
Things to Come: Yankee Know How 59
And the Pigs Drink Wine 64
The Wild West 71
Telling Tales of Difference 75
The Art of Forgetting and its Significance 77
3. The Othering America: Proximities, Tensions, and
Moving Targets 82
The Emigration Threat 87
5
Maja Lisa and the Narrative Weave 89
An Other Time 94
Caught in the Reflection 97
The Allegorical America 104
Cultural Discontinuity in the Continuous Space 106
The Centrality of the Periphery 109
4. A Path of its Own: the American Car and the
Pyramid of Dreams 112
The Material World 115
Consumption: the Art of Choosing 117
Cadillac and the Class of its Own 119
The Aesthetic Chasm between Blood and Action 123
Behind the Car: Swedish Modern, The Aesthetics
of a Modernity 126
New Ideas and Rewrapped Forms 129
Swedish and American Identities: The Aesthetics
of Alternate Modernities 131
Visions of Gray, Pyramids of Chrome 135
Disjuncture in the Transnational Flow 139
Foreigners in the Folk Home 140
Freedom of the Road, Swedish Style 145
The Invasion of Jonkoping 148
Myth and Reality 150
Fences, Trophies, and Mirrors 152
Cruising the Nineties 153
The Contextual Difference 157
5. Peace, Love, and Imperialism: Sideswiped
by the Sixties 160
Disposable Culture 162
Looking Out 163
Boiling Points in the Transnational 168
Split Image 173
Making Flags and Burning Flags 175
The Banishment of the Swedish Flag 180
6
Flags, Peoples, and Nations: Subtle Differences 183
Marching for the Nation and the World 185
Uneasy Riders 191
Glocal Familiarity 194
Internationally National 196
6. Culture Unbound: Defining the Doors of
Perception 199
Contesting Modernity 201
The Tribe 207
The Experience 208
The Inner Peace 210
The Freedom 212
Positions in the Here and There 215
Another Place, Another Time 219
Shaping Things to Come 222
Modernizing the Nation or Americanizing
Modernity? 225
Notes 229
Bibliography 244
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