Guido Culture and Italian American Youth From Bensonhurst to Jersey Shore /

• Main Author: Tricarico, Donald (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Italian and Italian American Studies
• Subjects: United States-History.; Civilization-History.; Popular Culture.; United States-Study and teaching.; Youth-Social life and customs.; Ethnicity.; US History.; Cultural History.; Popular Culture .; American Culture.; Youth Culture.; Ethnicity 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...