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 cultureat 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-sawingclimate 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.
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ISBN
9781782041825
Publisert
2020
Utgave
1. utgave
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Tamesis Books
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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