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Latin American Popular Culture - Politics, Media, Affect (Hardcover)
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Latin American Popular Culture - Politics, Media, Affect (Hardcover)
Series: Monografias A
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A wide range of essays which provide new conceptualizations of
popular culture while linking it to both its long history and some
of its most exciting contemporary forms. 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 santeria 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, Jesus Martin Barbero, Lucia Sa, Chandra
Morrison, Claire Taylor, Andrea Noble, Ed King.
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