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Punk, Planetarity, and the Wages of Neocolonial Globalization Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Maxwell Woods
Abstract: Discussions of punk tend to coalesce around its manifestation in the North Atlantic, but recent research and documentary filmmaking have focused on punk as a worldwide phenomenon. What remains underexplored is the neocolonial cultural politics of punk's global travels. After introducing the theoretical stakes—is punk neocolonial globalization or decolonial planetarity?—the article shifts
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Raudal y pervivencia del corrido mexicano Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta
Abstract: Even though on multiple occasions scholars of Mexican balladry have decreed its death, the Mexican corrido survives. Not only does it survive; it remains the most important balladic production in the world, given its historical corpus and its extensive and continuous living tradition, its immense production, and its manifestation as an industry that manages multimillion-dollar profits in
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Rock y Malvinas: Dos álbumes argentinos clave de 1982, Kamikaze de Luis Alberto Spinetta y Yendo de la cama al living de Charly García Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Mara Favoretto
Abstract: This article examines the impact of rock music during the Malvinas War in Argentina, focusing on the contributions of two albums released by Charly García and Luis Alberto Spinetta in 1982. Both artists utilized music as a tool for criticism and reflection within a context of media manipulation and confusion. García employed irony and parody in his lyrics to denounce the absurd war against
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"Una victoria para el Uruguay como país": Style, National Identity, and Intercultural Encounter at the 1924 Olympic Football Tournament Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Will Huddleston
Abstract: Across Latin America, football—particularly in the context of major international tournaments—is central to the construction of local, regional, and national identities and their representation abroad. This article examines the first world championship with Latin American participation: the 1924 Olympic Football Tournament in Paris. The event was a turning point in the development of football
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Camaleón cultural: La construcción discursiva, musical y performativa "chola" en la artista peruana Ruby Palomino Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Sandra Bernal Heredia
Abstract: This article analyzes the performative, musical, and discursive construction of the Peruvian singer Ruby Palomino through her career in reality TV talent contests: La voz Perú in 2014 and El artista del año in 2021. Although reality TV informs us of the social, economic, and cultural context of society and seeks to represent a "reality" as its name indicates, it is subject to the constructions
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"The Many Faces and Shades of Blackness": Race, Class, and Geography in Early Twenty-First-Century Telenovela Representations Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Asligul Berktay
Abstract: This article explores how Brazilian telenovelas reflect long-term understandings of race and race relations in Brazil, as well as within the (tele)-visual legacy and representations shared by the slave societies of the Atlantic world. Specifically, it focuses on two TV Globo telenovelas that were especially significant to Blackness and its televisual representations in the early 2000s by
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Tensiones raciales y visuales en el trópico colombiano: Discografías de orquestas sabaneras Pedro Laza y sus pelayeros y La Sonora Cordobesa Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Ana Cecilia Calle
Abstract: This article analyzes the album cover visuality of the tropical music orchestra Pedro Laza y sus pelayeros in Colombia (1954–1973) with other "sabanero sound" orchestras of the time, such as La Sonora Cordobesa (1959–1969), the orchestra of Clímaco Sarmiento, and big-band sound orchestras, such as that of Lucho Bermúdez. This corpus's graphic, geographic, and racial symbolisms form racial
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The Murder of a Pawnbroker and the Gentlemen's Duel Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Roberto Sánchez
Abstract: This article takes a microhistorical look at the underside of Afro-Peruvian culture to analyze the cultural and political intersection of plebeian and elite spheres. It examines two sensational crimes involving Afro-Peruvians that captured the zeitgeist of early twentieth-century Lima. The first involves the murder of the wealthiest pawnbroker in Lima at the hands of Apolinario Arzola, an
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Soundscapes of Tango: Criollismo, the Dissonances of Modernity, and Peronism Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Michael Scham
Abstract: As an alternative to primarily textual and visual approaches, sound studies offer a mode of understanding cultural organization and change. Furthermore, the emotional dimension of sound allows for a consideration of the links between affect and cognition. This article examines sound references in tango that register the displacements of modernity. What emerges is a contested aural landscape
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Sports Culture in Latin American History ed. by David M. K. Sheinin (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Daniel J. Nappo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Sports Culture in Latin American History ed. by David M. K. Sheinin Daniel J. Nappo David M. K. Sheinin, ed. Sports Culture in Latin American History. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. 248 pp. ISBN 9780822963370. $50. This fascinating collection casts a wide net of investigation. All but two of the essays
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Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition by Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola. Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition. Routledge, 2022. 188 pp. ISBN 9780367459659. $170. Commodifying Violence explores how the
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Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction and Poetry by J. Agustín Pastén B. (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Mario Morera Jiménez
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction and Poetry by J. Agustín Pastén B. Mario Morera Jiménez J. Agustín Pastén B. Postmodernism of Resistance in Roberto Bolaño's Fiction and Poetry. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020. 461 pp. ISBN 9780826361868. $95. Pastén presenta un estudio que propone
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The City as Photographic Text: Urban Documentary Photography of São Paulo by David William Foster (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Carlos Cuadra
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: The City as Photographic Text: Urban Documentary Photography of São Paulo by David William Foster Carlos Cuadra David William Foster. The City as Photographic Text: Urban Documentary Photography of São Paulo. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. 237 pp. ISBN-13 9780822946236. $45. Este libro, publicado un
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Transmisión y reactivación del legado de Víctor Jara y la Unidad Popular en un festival político en Gales Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Ignacio Rivera-Volosky
Abstract: In this article, I analyze a Welsh festival inspired by Chilean artist Víctor Jara and the government of Popular Unity (1970–1973). Using the theory of cultural performance, and based on interviews with participants and observations of some activities carried out in the festival, I argue that the festival is a space that simultaneously acts both to suspend and to create political normativity
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¡Nakíssimo! Transnational Identities, Cultural Tourism, and the Aesthetics of Consumption in NaCo Clothing Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Andrew Gordus
Abstract: The NaCo apparel company in Tijuana, Mexico, created a line of clothing and accessories that traded on a bilingual and bicultural identity construction in the late 1990s and 2000s. An examination of this clothing and its connection to the slang term naco reveals interesting aspects of the way national and ethnic discourses construct identity through the flow and consumption of transnational
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Y si quieres saber de mi pasado y La casa azul: Imaginación y sensibilidad surrealista en Chavela Vargas Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Sofia Ruiz-Alfaro
Abstract: This article analyzes the construction, representation, and meaning of the personal relationship between painter Frida Kahlo and singer Chavela Vargas in the graphic novel La casa azul (Alba 2014) by the Catalan artist Tyto Alba. I explore how Alba re-creates and interprets the relationship between these two prominent popular culture figures based on Chavela’s memoirs Y si quieres saber de
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Fonógrafos ambulantes en tiempos de don Porfirio: Hacia una historia popular de los sonidos (Ciudad de México, 1894–1903) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Jaddiel Díaz Frene
Abstract: At the end of the nineteenth century, talking machines stopped being inaccessible to the popular sectors and became objects of daily Mexican life. It was in this context that dozens of individuals, aware of the popular predilection for recorded music and interaction with sound technologies, decided to request authorization from the city council of Mexico City to rent out their phonographs
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Cocinando las alegrías: Imagen y discurso en Bizarre Foods America Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Kristell Andrea Villarreal Benítez
Abstract: This article presents the search results for the discursive and visual (re)presentations of San Basilio de Palenque, its food, and people in the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods America TV show with Andrew Zimmern. This was a qualitative work that used multimodality and visual anthropology to analyze the relationships between text (verbal), image, and cinematographic elements. It is the conjunction
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The Desert as Junkyard: The Perils of Proximity in the Documentary Deadly Metal and Two Novels Concerning the Cobalt 60 Accident in Ciudad Juárez Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Martin Camps
Abstract: In 1984 in the border town of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a cobalt radioactive therapy machine was dismantled, melted, and forged into iron materials that created a binational nuclear fallout emergency known as the “cobalt 60 accident,” the worst atomic incident in Latin America to date. I study this accident from the perspective of the desert as a site for “wastelanding”—as being a place rendered
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Feminist Performance as Challenging Voice-Body Regimentation Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Laura Jordán González
Abstract: This article proposes a close listening to women’s voices in Chile today. Subverting the assumption that the study of voices leads preferably to the description of individual subjectivities, this article aims to interrogate the collective dimension of vocal sound through the study of the performance A Rapist in Your Path. Its impact on the feminist movement is examined by paying attention
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Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia by Lorena Cuya Gavilano (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Jose Eduardo Cornelio
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia by Lorena Cuya Gavilano Jose Eduardo Cornelio Lorena Cuya Gavilano. Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2021. 217 pp. ISBN 9780814214657. $69.95. Este libro examina un conjunto de
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Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture by Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Lúcia Flórido
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture by Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky Lúcia Flórido Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky. Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2020. 293 pp. ISBN 978168340-1513. $85. Aldona Pobutsky’s book must be included among the most comprehensive and groundbreaking works
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Discursos e identidades en la ficción romántica: Visiones anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias/Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries ed. by María Isabel González Cruz (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 María Cecilia Saenz-Roby
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Discursos e identidades en la ficción romántica: Visiones anglófonas de Madeira y Canarias/Discourses and Identities in Romance Fiction: Anglophone Visions from Madeira and the Canaries ed. by María Isabel González Cruz María Cecilia Saenz-Roby María Isabel González Cruz, ed. Discursos e identidades en la ficción romántica:
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Pedro Lemebel, belleza indómita ed. by Luciano Martínez (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Ignacio Sánchez Osores
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Pedro Lemebel, belleza indómita ed. by Luciano Martínez Ignacio Sánchez Osores Luciano Martínez, ed. Pedro Lemebel, belleza indómita. Pittsburgh, PA: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2022. 450 pp. ISBN 1930744951. $40. Lemebel, belleza indómita (2022) editado por el investigador Luciano Martínez constituye
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"Cuando yo quiera has de volver": Configuraciones de masculinidad y feminidad en las canciones de Juan Gabriel para Rocío Dúrcal Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Julio Uribe Ugalde
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "Cuando yo quiera has de volver":Configuraciones de masculinidad y feminidad en las canciones de Juan Gabriel para Rocío Dúrcal Julio Uribe Ugalde Abstract Recent studies about the popular Mexican singer Juan Gabriel have contributed to understanding his artistic proposal as a hybrid mixture: traditional patriarchal discourse combined
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Body as Text: Challenging Marginalized Identities through Literary Performance in Contemporary Brazilian Saraus Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Annie Gibson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Body as Text:Challenging Marginalized Identities through Literary Performance in Contemporary Brazilian Saraus Annie Gibson Abstract This article explores contemporary literary saraus in São Paulo, Brazil. Although saraus can be traced back to the nineteenth century with the arrival of the Portuguese court to Brazil, today they often occupy
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También la lluvia y Altiplano: Trauma transgeneracional y renegociación histórica en un contexto transcultural Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Lucía Garavito
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: También la lluvia y Altiplano:Trauma transgeneracional y renegociación histórica en un contexto transcultural Lucía Garavito Abstract The films Even the Rain, directed by Icíar Bollaín (Spain) in 2010, and Altiplano (2009), directed by Peter Brosens (Belgium) and Jessica Woodworth (United States), fuse past and present in the context of
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La perpetuación de la problemática racial con el uso del romance interracial como intertexto metafórico entre la novela Sab y la telenovela La esclava blanca Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Valérie Benoist
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: La perpetuación de la problemática racial con el uso del romance interracial como intertexto metafórico entre la novela Sab y la telenovela La esclava blanca Valérie Benoist Abstract This article compares the interracial romance between a mulato man and a white woman that is central to the plot of the 2016 Colombian telenovela La esclava
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The Tyrannical Mother in Mexican Telenovelas Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Julee Tate
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Tyrannical Mother in Mexican Telenovelas Julee Tate Abstract Motherhood is an identity category that carries considerable weight in Mexican society and cultural expressions. The cult of motherhood means that a woman and her worth are often measured by her relationship to maternity. The closer that she comes to meeting the standards
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El juego de la vida, o cómo Televisa imaginó la pasión femenina por el futbol mexicano Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Alejandro González Landeros
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: El juego de la vida, o cómo Televisa imaginó la pasión femenina por el futbol mexicano Alejandro González Landeros Abstract This article explores how El juego de la vida, a 165-episode telenovela broadcast by Televisa from November 12, 2001, to June 28, 2002, contributes to expand existing soccer narratives in Mexico by reorganizing the
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Una historia temprana del crimen organizado en los corridos de Ciudad Juárez by Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Martin Mulligan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Una historia temprana del crimen organizado en los corridos de Ciudad Juárez by Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta Martin Mulligan Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta. Una historia temprana del crimen organizado en los corridos de Ciudad Juárez. Culiacán, México: Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa y Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, 2021
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A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity and Nationalism by Stephen D. Allen (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Daniel J. Nappo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity and Nationalism by Stephen D. Allen Daniel J. Nappo Stephen D. Allen. A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity and Nationalism. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 296 pp. ISBN 9780826358554. $65.00. In this cultural history, Stephen D. Allen examines
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Narcotransmisiones: Neoliberalismo e hiperconsumo en la era del #narcopop ed. by Danilo Santos et al. (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Catalina Gallardo Arenas
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Narcotransmisiones: Neoliberalismo e hiperconsumo en la era del #narcopop ed. by Danilo Santos et al. Catalina Gallardo Arenas Danilo Santos, Ainhoa Vásquez, e Ingrid Urgelles, eds. Narcotransmisiones: Neoliberalismo e hiperconsumo en la era del #narcopop. Cuidad Juárez, México: El Colegio de Chihuahua, 2021. 255 pp. ISBN
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Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America ed. by William H. Beezley (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Christine J. Fernández
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America ed. by William H. Beezley Christine J. Fernández William H. Beezley, ed. Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. 261 pp. ISBN 9780826359759. $29.95. The edited collection presents a broad overview of cultural
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In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel by Aníbal González (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Nathan J. Gordon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel by Aníbal González Nathan J. Gordon Aníbal González. In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 224 pp. ISBN 9780822965046. $29.95 Despite more than three
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Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency 1900–1950 by Jorge Coronado (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Nathan J. Gordon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency 1900–1950 by Jorge Coronado Nathan J. Gordon Jorge Coronado. Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency 1900–1950. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 240 pp. ISBN 9780822965008. $31.95. Through a comprehensive analysis of the sociocultural practice of southern
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"Cuando yo quiera has de volver": Configuraciones de masculinidad y feminidad en las canciones de Juan Gabriel para Rocío Dúrcal Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Julio Uribe Ugalde
Abstract: Recent studies about the popular Mexican singer Juan Gabriel have contributed to understanding his artistic proposal as a hybrid mixture: traditional patriarchal discourse combined with ambiguous, avant-garde performance. These studies have positioned his work as a field of study in academia, also exploring his compositions for female singers. One of them, perhaps the most relevant given
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Body as Text: Challenging Marginalized Identities through Literary Performance in Contemporary Brazilian Saraus Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Annie Gibson
Abstract: This article explores contemporary literary saraus in São Paulo, Brazil. Although saraus can be traced back to the nineteenth century with the arrival of the Portuguese court to Brazil, today they often occupy botecos (bars) in peripheral neighborhoods and create completely new relationships between author, audience, living space, and literary creation. During these open-mic nights on the
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Old Gringo y la frontera fílmica de Carlos Fuentes Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Marcos Pico Rentería
Abstract: Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico's most prolific writers and branded under the Latin American Boom, has received much attention throughout the years as a novelist. However, the work introduced to Hollywood in 1989 with the adaptation of his novel Gringo viejo (1985) did not receive the same attention. Rather, it suffered the consequences of adaptation and gained many critics in the United States
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También la lluvia y Altiplano: Trauma transgeneracional y renegociación histórica en un contexto transcultural Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Lucía Garavito
Abstract: The films Even the Rain, directed by Icíar Bollaín (Spain) in 2010, and Altiplano (2009), directed by Peter Brosens (Belgium) and Jessica Woodworth (United States), fuse past and present in the context of the Europe-America encounter. While the first film is framed by the Water War in Cochabamba, Bolivia (1999–2000), the second has as referent the ecological catastrophe that took place in
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Suspenso en el noticiero: Representación de la guerrilla en Canal 10, Córdoba, Argentina, 1970–1977 Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Cynthia Tompkins
Abstract: Drawing from archival footage housed at the Centro de Conservación y Documentación Audiovisual de la Universidad de Córdoba, Argentina, this article focuses on the deployment of suspense in the portrayal of the guerrilla within the global context of the Cold War, as it analyzes newscasts broadcast by Canal 10, a television station owned by the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, during the tumultuous
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La perpetuación de la problemática racial con el uso del romance interracial como intertexto metafórico entre la novela Sab y la telenovela La esclava blanca Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Valérie Benoist
Abstract: This article compares the interracial romance between a mulato man and a white woman that is central to the plot of the 2016 Colombian telenovela La esclava blanca with the one present in Sab (1841), written by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda and usually considered the first antislavery novel written in Spanish. It argues that La esclava seeks to create collective imaginaries in which viewers
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The Tyrannical Mother in Mexican Telenovelas Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Julee Tate
Abstract: Motherhood is an identity category that carries considerable weight in Mexican society and cultural expressions. The cult of motherhood means that a woman and her worth are often measured by her relationship to maternity. The closer that she comes to meeting the standards of Marianism (modeled by the figure of the Virgin of Guadalupe), the more likely she is to be seen as a good woman. This
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El juego de la vida, o cómo Televisa imaginó la pasión femenina por el futbol mexicano Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Alejandro González Landeros
Abstract: This article explores how El juego de la vida, a 165-episode telenovela broadcast by Televisa from November 12, 2001, to June 28, 2002, contributes to expand existing soccer narratives in Mexico by reorganizing the conventions of the genre to incorporate an atypical theme: women's soccer. Despite the fact that this telenovela breaks the gender hegemony that male-centered Mexican soccer enjoyed
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Una historia temprana del crimen organizado en los corridos de Ciudad Juárez by Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Martin Mulligan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Una historia temprana del crimen organizado en los corridos de Ciudad Juárez by Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta Martin Mulligan Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta. Una historia temprana del crimen organizado en los corridos de Ciudad Juárez. Culiacán, México: Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa y Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, 2021
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A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity and Nationalism by Stephen D. Allen (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Daniel J. Nappo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity and Nationalism by Stephen D. Allen Daniel J. Nappo Stephen D. Allen. A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity and Nationalism. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 296 pp. ISBN 9780826358554. $65.00. In this cultural history, Stephen D. Allen examines
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Narcotransmisiones: Neoliberalismo e hiperconsumo en la era del #narcopop ed. by Danilo Santos et al. (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Catalina Gallardo Arenas
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Narcotransmisiones: Neoliberalismo e hiperconsumo en la era del #narcopop ed. by Danilo Santos et al. Catalina Gallardo Arenas Danilo Santos, Ainhoa Vásquez, e Ingrid Urgelles, eds. Narcotransmisiones: Neoliberalismo e hiperconsumo en la era del #narcopop. Cuidad Juárez, México: El Colegio de Chihuahua, 2021. 255 pp. ISBN
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Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America ed. by William H. Beezley (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Christine J. Fernández
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America ed. by William H. Beezley Christine J. Fernández William H. Beezley, ed. Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. 261 pp. ISBN 9780826359759. $29.95. The edited collection presents a broad overview of cultural
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In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel by Aníbal González (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Nathan J. Gordon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel by Aníbal González Nathan J. Gordon Aníbal González. In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 224 pp. ISBN 9780822965046. $29.95 Despite more than three
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Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency 1900–1950 by Jorge Coronado (review) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Nathan J. Gordon
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency 1900–1950 by Jorge Coronado Nathan J. Gordon Jorge Coronado. Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency 1900–1950. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 240 pp. ISBN 9780822965008. $31.95. Through a comprehensive analysis of the sociocultural practice of southern
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“Golpe, não!”: Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Songs of Protest Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Ligia Bezerra
Abstract Brazilian Popular Music has long energized public debate on a variety of issues in Brazilian society. From Geraldo Vandre’s “Pra nao dizer que nao falei das flores” (1968) to Anitta’s “Vai...
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La realidad que triunfa sobre la forma: La novela negra en Mario Mendoza, Lady Masacre Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Adriana Sara Jastrzȩbska
Abstract Paradoxically, in Colombia, whose past and present time are marked by the continuous waves of violence, the crime or noir fiction is a marginal subgenre. In fact, it has never appeared in ...
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Gendered Figure Lighting, Artifice, and Realism in Rosaura a las diez Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Matt Losada
Abstract This article examines how, in Rosaura a las diez (Mario Soffici, 1958)—made as the Argentine studio system production model was in a crisis that would prove terminal—the productive tension...
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Cuerpo, memoria y empatía: Procesos de creación colectiva en torno a la figura de Violeta Parra Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Ma Paz Brozas,Miguel Vicente
Abstract Between 2017 and 2018, amid the centenary of the birth of Violeta Parra, a collective and interdisciplinary creation project had been carried out with three productions (scenic, videograph...
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Ex-voto: Folk, Outsider, Transnational—Debating Definitions Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Lorella Di Gregorio
Abstract Ex-votos are the representation of a struggle and also a spiritual practice. Historically, pictorial ex-votos depict an alleged miracle in an iconic manner. When the struggle is migration,...
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Zombies as Temporal Critique: Sudor frío (2010) and Generations of Youth in Postdictatorship Argentina Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Charles St-Georges
Abstract Set in present-day Buenos Aires, the film Sudor frio (2010, dir. Adrian Garcia Bogliano) features two former agents of the Proceso de Reorganizacion Nacional who continue to imprison zombi...
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White Subjectivity and Black Nationalism in José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo’s Alack Sinner Comic “Vietblues” (1975) Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Christopher Conway
Abstract The Argentine artist Jose Munoz and writer Carlos Sampayo began publishing their Alack Sinner detective comic in the Italian magazine Alterlinus in 1974, after which its stories appeared i...
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Contigo en la distancia: Colombia, Galicia y el negocio narco entre la realidad y la ficción; entre el humor y el dramatismo Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Sabrina S. Laroussi
Abstract In his 2015 book Farina, Nacho Carretero utilizes a sarcastic tone when detailing the criminal landscape that reigned in Galicia, Spain, for decades. This particular satirical wit is also ...
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Víctor Gaviria’s Mujer del animal and the Banality of Violence against Women Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
Abstract This article explores violence against Colombian women in Victor Gaviria’s 2016 film La mujer del animal. The plight of women comes into view in cases of domestic abuse, the apathy of an i...
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Zombies as Temporal Critique: Sudor frío (2010) and Generations of Youth in Postdictatorship Argentina Studies in Latin American Popular Culture (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-05-27 Charles St-Georges
Abstract: Set in present-day Buenos Aires, the film Sudor frío (2010, dir. Adrián García Bogliano) features two former agents of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional who continue to imprison zombified abductees from the Dirty War of the 1970s and 1980s in their decrepit house of horrors, where they also capture and torture newer generations of Argentine youth who are disconnected from the historical