Contents

• Here, there, and everywhere: introduction / Reinhold Wagnleitner and Elaine Tayler May
• First steps toward globalization: nineteenth-century exports of American entertainment forms / John G. Blair
• The Americanization of South Africa / James T. Campbell
• No innocents abroad : the Salzburg impetus and American studies in Europe / Oliver Schmidt
• Selling America via the silver screen? Efforts to manage the projection of American culture abroad, 1942-1947 / Theodore A. Wilson
• Dreams in a dictatorship: Hollywood and Franco’s Spain, 1939-1956 / Aurora Bosch and M. Fernanda del Rincón
• Invasion and counterattack: Italian and American film relations in the postwar period / Guiliana Muscio
• Programmed for domination: U.S. television broadcasting and its effects on Nigerian culture / Nosa Owens-Ibie
• Jammin’ on the Champs-Elysées: jazz, France, and the 1950s / Elizabeth Vihlen
• "Satchmo blows up the world": jazz, race, and empire during the cold war / Penny M. Von Eschen
• Swingin’ under Stalin: Russian jazz during the cold war and beyond / Michael May
• Rock ‘n’ roll in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1961 / Thomas Fuchs
• How hip hop hit Heidelberg: German rappers, rhymes, and rhythms / Christoph Ribbat
• Cultural transformation of John Philip Sousa and Disneyland in Japan / Masako Notoji
• Consumption of American pop culture in Ireland and England / Myles Dungan and David Gray
• Backlash: an argument against the spread of American popular culture in Turkey / Gülriz Büken
• German unification as self-inflicted Americanization: critical views on the course of contemporary German development / Michael Ermarth
• Advertising: the commodification of American icons of freedom / Rob Kroes
• New lords of the global village? Theories of media domination in the Internet era / J. Michael Jaffe and Gabriel Weimann
• Encartafication or emancipation: the Internet as the new American frontier? / Reinhold Wagnleitner