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. 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.

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

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.

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