Latin American popular culture since independence : an introduction / edited by William H. Beezley and Linda A. Curcio-Nagy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beezley, William H.

Curcio, Linda Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Latin America.

Popular culture.

Arts.

Latin America.

Latin America--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Arts--Latin America.

Physical Description:

vii, 340 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2012]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Piety and public space : the cemetery campaign in Veracruz, 1789-1810 / Pamela Voekel

Church, Humboldt, and Darwin : the tension and harmony of art and science / Stephen Jay Gould

Black kings, blackface carnival, and nineteenth-century origins of the tango / John Charles Chasteen

Cartas y cartas, compadre

: love and other letters from Río Frío / William E. French

Peddling the pampas : Argentina at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 / Ingrid E. Fey

Death and disorder in Mexico City : the state funeral of Manuel Romero Rubio / Matthew D. Esposito

Images of Indians in the construction of Ecuadorian identity at the end of the nineteenth century / Blanca Muratorio

Many chefs in the national kitchen : cookbooks and identity in nineteenth-century Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher

The new order : diversions and modernization in turn-of-the-century Lima / Fanni Mu, Oz Cabrejo

From the ruins of the ancien régime : Mexico's monument to the revolution / Thomas L. Benjamin

Racial parity and national humor : Carmen Miranda's samba performances, 1930-1939 / Darien J. Davis

Oil, race, and calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909-1990 / Graham E.L. Holton

The dictator's seduction : gender and state spectacle during the Trujillo regime / Lauren H. Derby

En el corazón del pueblo : Pedro Infante's funeral, the pueblo motif, and the contest over his legacy / Sal Acosta

Nostalgia for the future : the new song movement in Nicaragua / Janet L. Sturman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442212541

1442212543

9781442212558

1442212551

OCLC:

719673506