ISBN:
9781782041825
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 300 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografias 327
Series Statement:
Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografias
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DDC:
306.098
Keywords:
Popular culture / Latin America
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Volkskultur
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Lateinamerika
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Lateinamerika
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Lateinamerika
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Volkskultur
Abstract:
"Popular culture" has always represented a fulcrum within social, cultural and anthropological discourses in Latin America. Often imagined as representing a challenge to the dominant cultural paradigms of the "lettered city", it has repeatedly been mapped onto political, economic and even libidinal boundaries - between country and city, between folk and street, between the "masses" and elite national/political structures. Yet at the turn of the 21st century, concepts such as the "folk", the "popular", the "mass" and the "multitude" have exploded in the face of new cultural and informational technologies, putting cinematic, televisual and cybernetic manifestations of popular culture at the forefront of social processes. In order to address the fragile contemporaneity of popular culture in Latin America, the essays in this collection engage with a wide range of cultural phenomena, from forms of mass political experience in the Colonial and Independence periods, to the modern-day emergence of street art, blogs, comic books and television, as well as the recycling of refuse as art, the marketing of santería to tourists, and the filming of poverty in the favela. In so doing, they explore the diverse regimes of affect that both sustain and destabilize national symbolic orders, and chart the novel mediations between the national and the global in a see-sawing climate of conflicting economic and political ideologies. Geoffrey Kantaris is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Rory O'Bryen is a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Contributors: Francisco Ortega, Joanna Page, Stephen Hart, Erica Segre, Jesús Martín Barbero, Lúcia Sá, Chandra Morrison, Claire Taylor, Andrea Noble, Ed King
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the fragile contemporaneity of the popular / Geoffrey Kantaris and Rory O'Bryen -- Politics. 'And where are the people?' : genealogies of the pueblo during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Francisco Ortega ; Folktales and fabulation in Lucrecia Martel's films / Joanna Page ; How popular is Cuban popular culture? / Stephen M. Hart ; 'El convertible no convertible' : reconsidering refuse and disjacta aesthetics in contemporary Cuban art / Erica Segre -- Media. Narratives of identity and media genres / Jesús Martin Barbero ; Filming favelas : space, gender and everyday life in Cidade de Deus and Antônia Lúcia Sá ; Colouring pollution : 'cleaning' the city and 'recycling' social values in São Paulo street art / Chandra Morrison ; Blogging from the margins : grassroots activism and mass media forms in the Hiperbarrio Project / Claire Taylor -- Affect. Affect, politics and the production of the people : mediations on the Río Magdalena / Rory O'Bryen ; The politics of emotion in the Mexican Revolution : the tears of Pancho Villa / Andrea Noble ; Memory and affective technologies in the Argentine comic book series Cybersix / Edward King
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