Latin American Popular Culture since Independence (eBook)

An Introduction

William H. Beezley, Linda A. Curcio-Nagy (Herausgeber)

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2011 | 2., Second Edition
368 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1256-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to the present. Exploring such themes and events as funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world's fairs and food, a group of leading historians examines the ways that a wide range of individuals with a variety of 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. Drawing on a rich array of case studies, this text introduces the complexity of motives behind and the diversity of expression of popular culture in Latin America.

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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, Darien J. Davis, Lauren (Robin) H. Derby, Matthew D. Esposito, Ingrid E. Fey, Stephen Jay Gould, Graham E. L. Horton, Fanni Munoz Cabrejo, Blanca Muratorio, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Janet Sturman, and Pamela Voekel.

Autor

William H. Beezley is professor of history at the University of Arizona. Linda A. Curcio-Nagy is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter 1: Piety and Public Space: The Cemetery Campaign in Veracruz, 1789–1810Pamela VoekelChapter 2: Church, Humboldt, and Darwin: The Tension and Harmony of Art and ScienceStephen Jay GouldChapter 3: Black Kings, Blackface Carnival, and Nineteenth-Century Origins of the TangoJohn Charles ChasteenChapter 4: "Cartas y cartas, compadre . . . .": Love and other letters from Río FríoWilliam E. FrenchChapter 5: Peddling the Pampas: Argentina at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889Ingrid E. FeyChapter 6: Death and Disorder in Mexico City: The State Funeral of Manuel Romero RubioMatthew D. EspositoChapter 7: Images of Indians in the Construction of Ecuadorian Identity at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyBlanca MuratorioChapter 8: Many Chefs in the National Kitchen: Cookbooks and Identity in Nineteenth-Century MexicoJeffrey M. PilcherChapter 9: The New Order: Diversions and Modernization in Turn-of-the-Century LimaFanni Muñoz CabrejoChapter 10: From the Ruins of the Ancien Régime: Mexico's Monument to the RevolutionThomas L. BenjaminChapter 11: Racial Parity and National Humor: Carmen Miranda's Samba Performances, 1930–1939Darién J. DavisChapter 12: Oil, Race, and Calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909–1990Graham E. L. HoltonChapter 13: The Dictator's Seduction: Gender and State Spectacle during the Trujillo RegimeLauren H. DerbyChapter 14: En el corazón del pueblo: Pedro Infante's Funeral, the Pueblo Motif, and the Contest over his LegacySal AcostaChapter 15: Nostalgia for the Future: The New Song Movement in NicaraguaJanet L. Sturman

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.11.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Latin American Studies
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-1256-X / 144221256X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1256-5 / 9781442212565