Latin American popular culture : an introduction

Beezley, William H. (Added Author). Curcio, Linda Ann. (Added Author).

Item details

ISBN: 0842027106 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780842027106 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 0842027114 (paper)
ISBN: 9780842027113 (paper)
Physical Description: print
xxiii, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, 2000.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 -- 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 -- Portraits of a Possible Nation: Photographing Medicine in Brazil / Nancy Leys Stepan -- The New Order: Diversions and Modernization in Turn-of-the-Century Lima / Fanni Munoz Cabrejo -- From the Ruins of the Ancien Regime: Mexico's Monument to the Revolution / Thomas L. Benjamin -- Racial Parity and National Humor: Exploring Brazilian Samba from Noel Rosa to Carmen Miranda, 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.