The editors have put together a solid overview of ten areas of popular culture in Latin America. The contributors have skillfully overcome a variety of research obstacles as well as the imposing problem of dealing with many countries. Each contributor has expertly assembled scientific research, intelligent observations, and well-thought-out conclusions to offer a reliable, sophisticated study of his particular area. Popular music, sports, television, popular religion, comics, photonovels, film, newspapers, cartoons, and festivals and carnivals are covered in this much-needed volume.
The editors have put together a solid overview of ten areas of popular culture in Latin America. The contributors have skillfully overcome a variety of research obstacles as well as the imposing problem of dealing with many countries. Each contributor has expertly assembled scientific research, intelligent observations, and well-thought-out conclusions to offer a reliable, sophisticated study of his particular area. Popular music, sports, television, popular religion, comics, photonovels, film, newspapers, cartoons, and festivals and carnivals are covered in this much-needed volume.
For both background and bibliographical information on topics in popular culture in Latin America, this is an excellent resource. Reference Book Review
Charles M. Tatum, PhD, is professor of Spanish and Chicano studies at the University of Arizona.
"Popular culture has only recently been subjected to intense
academic interest, but it is an area well worth purusing. This
Handbook provides a fine introduction to this important field as it
applies to Latin America. The articles all have useful
bibliographies, guides to sources, and quick overviews of their
subjects. Outstanding are the surveys on comics, popular music,
television, photonovels, and single-panel cartoons .... [on] the
whole, this is an excellent beginning and is as useful a source for
the general reader as for the graduate researcher."-Choice
?Popular culture has only recently been subjected to intense
academic interest, but it is an area well worth purusing. This
Handbook provides a fine introduction to this important field as it
applies to Latin America. The articles all have useful
bibliographies, guides to sources, and quick overviews of their
subjects. Outstanding are the surveys on comics, popular music,
television, photonovels, and single-panel cartoons .... [on] the
whole, this is an excellent beginning and is as useful a source for
the general reader as for the graduate researcher.?-Choice
?This handbook fills the need for sources of information relating
to Latin American popular culture. It follows an essay format with
extensive bibliographies printed at the end of each essay.
Individual scholars in the field author these essays on a variety
of topics--popular music, popular religion, comics, tv, sports,
photonovels, films, festivals and carnivals, the single-panel
cartoon, and newspapers. The essays are, at times, both interesting
and very informative and provide little known facts and sources for
further research. For both background and bibliographical
information on topics in popular culture in Latin America, this is
an excellent resource.?-Reference Book Review
"This handbook fills the need for sources of information relating
to Latin American popular culture. It follows an essay format with
extensive bibliographies printed at the end of each essay.
Individual scholars in the field author these essays on a variety
of topics--popular music, popular religion, comics, tv, sports,
photonovels, films, festivals and carnivals, the single-panel
cartoon, and newspapers. The essays are, at times, both interesting
and very informative and provide little known facts and sources for
further research. For both background and bibliographical
information on topics in popular culture in Latin America, this is
an excellent resource."-Reference Book Review
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