This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that
highlight the diversity of Latin America s cultural expressions
from independence to the present. Leading historians explore
funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and
monuments, and world s fairs and food. These themes and events
highlight the ways in which a wide range of individuals with
copious, at times contradictory, motives attempted to forge
identity, turn the world upside down, mock their betters, forget
their troubles through dance, express love in letters, and
altogether enjoy life. The authors analyze case studies from
Argentina, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico,
Nicaragua, Peru, and Trinidad-Tobago, tracing how their examples
resonate in the rest of the region. They show how people could and
did find opportunities to escape, if only occasionally, their daily
drudgery, making lives for themselves of greater variety than the
constant quest for dominance, drive for profits, or knee-jerk
resistance to the social or economic order so often described in
cultural studies. Instead, this rich text introduces the complexity
of motives behind and the diversity of expressions of popular
culture in Latin America. Contributions by: Sal Acosta, Thomas L.
Benjamin, John Charles Chasteen, Darien J. Davis, Lauren (Robin) H.
Derby, Matthew D. Esposito, Ingrid E. Fey, Stephen Jay Gould,
Graham E. L. Horton, Fanni Munoz Cabrejo, Blanca Muratorio, Jeffrey
M. Pilcher, Janet Sturman, and Pamela Voekel."
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