New York: Cradle of America’s Cultural Plurality offers a variety of perspectives on New York City literature, art, and music by a team of European American Studies scholars. Beginning with the myths of New York, it continues to explore New York’s topos from the point of displaced southerners, ethnic minorities (Jewish, Afro-American, Czech), gender (feminist, gay), avant-garde artists, and its indigenous music (jazz, vaudeville, the musical). New York’s hodgepodge of material and cultural wealth, the accumulation of peoples from all over the globe, has created fascinating patterns of democratic cooperation, exchange, and tolerance—well as friction and conflict. Its dramatic metropolitan structure and cosmopolitan diversity provoke a wide range of responses… Read More
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