Latin American Popular Culture Since Independence

Author : William H. Beezley,Linda Ann Curcio
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781442212541

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Latin American Popular Culture Since Independence by William H. Beezley,Linda Ann Curcio Pdf

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 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 as well 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, orknee-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.

Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0842027114

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Latin American Popular Culture by William H. Beezley Pdf

Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction is a collection of articles that explores a wide range of compelling cultural subjects in the region, including carnival, romance, funerals, medicine, monuments and dance, among others. The introduction lays out the most important theoretical approaches to the culture of Latin America, and the chapters serve as illustrative case studies. Featuring the latest scholarship in cultural history most of the chapters have not previously been published Latin American Popular Culture is an important resource for courses in Latin American history, civilization, popular culture, and anthropology.

Author : William Rowe,Vivian Schelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017255714

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Memory and Modernity by William Rowe,Vivian Schelling Pdf

Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America's popular culture considers the broad spectrum of cultural forms in the various countries of the subcontinent. Exploring the ways in which daily life and ritual have resisted and been influenced by Western mass culture, Memory and Modernity traces the main anthropological, sociological and political debates about the nature of popular culture. Rowe and Schelling use their analysis of the development of a culture industry in Latin America to engage with wider debates about modernity, drawing out the contrast between Latin America's cultural wealth and its widespread material poverty. In challenging the assumptions of much Western cultural criticism, this book will be essential reading for students of Latin American society, while offering the general reader a concise and accessible overview of an exciting and varied popular culture.

Author : Arthur A. Natella, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786451483

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Latin American Popular Culture by Arthur A. Natella, Jr. Pdf

This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and artistic heritage of the Latin American countries. Several chapters provide detailed accounts of daily life, including descriptions of contemporary dress, mealtime traditions, transportation, and traditional ways of conducting business. Other chapters focus on the cultural significance of the popular music, art, and literature prevalent in each Latin American country. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Elia Geoffrey Kantaris,Rory O'Bryen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781855662643

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Latin American Popular Culture by Elia Geoffrey Kantaris,Rory O'Bryen Pdf

A wide range of essays which provide new conceptualizations of popular culture while linking it to both its long history and some of its most exciting contemporary forms.

Author : Eva Bueno,Terry Caesar
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822990581

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Imagination Beyond Nation by Eva Bueno,Terry Caesar Pdf

An exploration in verse of rites of passage within the Cuban-American culture shows how a combined nostalgia for a lost world and a daily confrontation with American culture leads to self-awareness

Author : Harold E. Hinds, Jr.,Charles M. Tatum
Publisher : New Mexico State Univ
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0960866442

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Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 1986 by Harold E. Hinds, Jr.,Charles M. Tatum Pdf

Author : Thomas C. Wright,Robert L. Smale
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538166239

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Latin America since Independence by Thomas C. Wright,Robert L. Smale Pdf

This book offers an innovative, thematic approach to the history of Latin America since independence. It traces continuity and change in colonial legacies that became central political issues following independence: authoritarian governance; a rigid social hierarchy based on race, color, and gender; the powerful Roman Catholic Church; economic dependency; and the large landed estate. Generally, liberals have sought to modify or abolish these legacies in the interest of what they consider progress, while conservatives have attempted to preserve them as much as possible as bastions of their power and privilege. Examining the evolution of these colonial legacies across two centuries reveals the processes that formed the political systems, economies, societies, and religious institutions that characterize Latin America today.

Author : John King
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521636515

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Latin American Culture by John King Pdf

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Author : Luis Bértola,José Antonio Ocampo
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199662142

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The Economic Development of Latin America Since Independence by Luis Bértola,José Antonio Ocampo Pdf

A comprehensive and accessible overview of the economic history of Latin America over the two centuries since Independence. It considers its principal problems and the main policy trends and covers external trade, economic growth, and inequality.

Author : Jens Andermann,William Rowe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1845452127

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Images of Power by Jens Andermann,William Rowe Pdf

In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern state-form has been missing. This volume is the first concerted attempt by cultural, historical and visual scholars to address the political dimension of visual culture in Latin America, in a comparative perspective spanning various regions and historical stages. The case studies are divided into four sections, analysing the formation of a public sphere, the visual politics of avant-garde art, the impact of mass society on political iconography, and the consolidation and crisis of territory as a key icon of the state. Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder: una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US. William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His book Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America (London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, are Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).

Author : Lisa Shaw,Stephanie Dennison
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851095049

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Pop Culture Latin America! by Lisa Shaw,Stephanie Dennison Pdf

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Author : Charles M. Tatum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0960866426

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Studies in Latin American Popular Culture by Charles M. Tatum Pdf

Author : Shelley Godsland,Anne M. White
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822032183816

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Cultura Popular by Shelley Godsland,Anne M. White Pdf

The papers collected in this volume are from the proceedings of the Cultura Popular conference held in 1999 at the Manchester Metropolitan University. The essays deal with the problem of applying culture studies theory to Hispanic popular culture.

Author : Teresa A. Meade
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119719168

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A History of Modern Latin America by Teresa A. Meade Pdf

Explores the modern history of Latin America using an intersectional approach, newly revised and updated. A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present, Third Edition offers a lively account of the rich political, cultural, and social history of the independent nation-states of Latin America and the Caribbean. Viewing Latin American history through the lens of social class, gender, race, and ethnicity, this accessible textbook explores the complex set of personalities, issues, and events that intersect to form the Latin American historical landscape. Written in a clear and engaging narrative style, the fully updated third edition examines specific events in different nations and periods to illustrate broader historical trends and interpretations. Concise chapters feature first-hand accounts of the life history of both prominent and ordinary people to contextualize topics such as African slavery in the Americas, the struggle for Haitian independence, the patriarchal rules governing marriage in Brazil, the construction of the Panama Canal, indigenous uprisings in the Mexican Revolution, the impact of immigration on Latin American life, the opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, and more. Presents documents and excerpts from fiction to serve as concrete examples of historical ideas Examines gender and its influence on political and economic change Highlights the role of music, art, sports, movies, and other popular culture in the formation of Latin American cultural identity Includes a summary of European colonialism and an overview of Latin America in the 21st century Provides end-of-chapter review questions, discussion topics, and suggested readings Part of the popular Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World series, the third edition of A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present is an excellent textbook for introductory and intermediate undergraduate students as well as high school students taking advanced/honors Latin American history courses.