Latin American Popular Culture since Independence

An Introduction
Herausgeber: Beezley, William H.; Curcio-Nagy, Linda A.

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Produktbeschreibung

This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world's fairs and food. These themes and events highlight the ways in which a wide range of individuals with copious, at times contradictory, motives attempted to forge identity, turn the world upside down, mock their betters, forget their troubles through dance, express love in letters, and altogether enjoy life. The authors analyze case studies from Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Trinidad-Tobago, tracing how their examples resonate in the rest of the region. They show how people could and did find opportunities to escape, if only occasionally, their daily drudgery, making lives for themselves of greater variety than the constant quest for dominance, drive for profits, or knee-jerk resistance to the social or economic order so often described in cultural studies. Instead, this rich text introduces the complexity of motives behind and the diversity of expressions of popular culture in Latin America. Contributions by: Sal Acosta, Thomas L. Benjamin, John Charles Chasteen, Darién J. Davis, Lauren (Robin) H. Derby, Matthew D. Esposito, Ingrid E. Fey, Stephen Jay Gould, Graham E. L. Horton, Fanni Muñoz Cabrejo, Blanca Muratorio, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Janet Sturman, and Pamela Voekel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Second Edition
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 569g
• ISBN-13: 9781442212558
• ISBN-10: 1442212551
• Artikelnr.: 33808516

Autorenporträt

Edited by William H. Beezley and Linda A. Curcio-Nagy

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Piety and Public Space: The Cemetery Campaign in
Veracruz, 1789-1810 Pamela Voekel Chapter 2: Church, Humboldt, and Darwin:
The Tension and Harmony of Art and Science Stephen Jay Gould Chapter 3:
Black Kings, Blackface Carnival, and Nineteenth-Century Origins of the
Tango John Charles Chasteen Chapter 4: "Cartas y cartas, compadre . . . .":
Love and other letters from Río Frío William E. French Chapter 5: Peddling
the Pampas: Argentina at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 Ingrid E.
Fey Chapter 6: Death and Disorder in Mexico City: The State Funeral of
Manuel Romero Rubio Matthew D. Esposito Chapter 7: Images of Indians in the
Construction of Ecuadorian Identity at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Blanca Muratorio Chapter 8: Many Chefs in the National Kitchen: Cookbooks
and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Mexico Jeffrey M. Pilcher Chapter 9: The
New Order: Diversions and Modernization in Turn-of-the-Century Lima Fanni
Muñoz Cabrejo Chapter 10: From the Ruins of the Ancien Régime: Mexico's
Monument to the Revolution Thomas L. Benjamin Chapter 11: Racial Parity and
National Humor: Carmen Miranda's Samba Performances, 1930-1939 Darién J.
Davis Chapter 12: Oil, Race, and Calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909-1990
Graham E. L. Holton Chapter 13: The Dictator's Seduction: Gender and State
Spectacle during the Trujillo Regime Lauren H. Derby Chapter 14: En el
corazón del pueblo: Pedro Infante's Funeral, the Pueblo Motif, and the
Contest over his Legacy Sal Acosta Chapter 15: Nostalgia for the Future:
The New Song Movement in Nicaragua Janet L. Sturman