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'West Side Story' may be timeless – but life in gangs today differs drastically from when the Jets and Sharks ruled the streets

  • Written by David Pyrooz, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
imageDancing with danger.West Side Story/Amblin

The songs are timeless, the casting contemporary and dance routines still daring.

But for socialscientistslike us, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 hit musical “West Side Story” – a film about two rival street gangs – is more than a 21st-century face-lift of a Broadway...

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