During the twentieth century the Mexican government invested in the
creation and promotion of a national culture more aggressively than
any other state in the western hemisphere. "Fragments of a Golden
Age" provides a comprehensive cultural history of the vibrant
Mexico that emerged after 1940. Agreeing that the politics of
culture and its production, dissemination, and reception constitute
one of the keys to understanding this period of Mexican history,
the volume's contributors--historians, popular writers,
anthropologists, artists, and cultural critics--weigh in on a
wealth of topics from music, tourism, television, and sports to
theatre, unions, art, and magazines.
Each essay in its own way addresses the fragmentation of a
cultural consensus that prevailed during the "golden age" of
post-revolutionary prosperity, a time when the state was still
successfully bolstering its power with narratives of modernization
and shared community. Combining detailed case studies--both urban
and rural--with larger discussions of political, economic, and
cultural phenomena, the contributors take on such topics as the
golden age of Mexican cinema, the death of Pedro Infante as a
political spectacle, the 1951 "caravan of hunger," professional
wrestling, rock music, and soap operas.
"Fragments of a Golden Age" will fill a particular gap for
students of modern Mexico, Latin American studies, cultural
studies, political economy, and twentieth century history, as well
as to others concerned with rethinking the cultural dimensions of
nationalism, imperialism, and modernization.
"Contributors." Steven J. Bachelor, Quetzil E. Castaneda, Seth
Fein, Alison Greene, Omar Hernandez, Jis & Trino, Gilbert M.
Joseph, Heather Levi, Ruben Martinez, Emile McAnany, John Mraz,
Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Elena Poniatowska, Anne Rubenstein, Alex
Saragoza, Arthur Schmidt, Mary Kay Vaughan, Eric Zolov
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