Format:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9781442212565
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Revised Introduction -- Chapter 1: Piety and Public Space -- Chapter 2: Church, Humboldt, and Darwin -- Chapter 3: Black Kings, Blackface Carnival, and Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Tango -- Chapter 4: "'Cartas y cartas, compadre. . . .': Love and Other Letters from Río Frío" -- Chapter 5: Peddling the Pampas -- Chapter 6: Death and Disorder in Mexico City -- Chapter 7: Images of Indians in the Construction of Ecuadorian Identity at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 8: Many Chefs in the National Kitchen -- Chapter 9: The New Order -- Chapter 10: From the Ruins of the Ancien Régime -- Chapter 11: Racial Parity and National Humor -- Chapter 12: Oil, Race, and Calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909-1990 -- Chapter 13: The Dictator's Seduction -- Chapter 14: En el corazón del pueblo -- Chapter 15: Nostalgia for the Future: The New Song Movement in Nicaragua -- Notes -- Video Distributors -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442212541
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781442212541
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=772639