Introduction
Chapter 1: Piety and Public Space: The Cemetery Campaign in
Veracruz, 1789–1810
Pamela Voekel
Chapter 2: Church, Humboldt, and Darwin: The Tension and Harmony of
Art and Science
Stephen Jay Gould
Chapter 3: Black Kings, Blackface Carnival, and Nineteenth-Century
Origins of the Tango
John Charles Chasteen
Chapter 4: "Cartas y cartas, compadre . . . .": Love and other
letters from Río Frío
William E. French
Chapter 5: Peddling the Pampas: Argentina at the Paris Universal
Exposition of 1889
Ingrid E. Fey
Chapter 6: Death and Disorder in Mexico City: The State Funeral of
Manuel Romero Rubio
Matthew D. Esposito
Chapter 7: Images of Indians in the Construction of Ecuadorian
Identity at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Blanca Muratorio
Chapter 8: Many Chefs in the National Kitchen: Cookbooks and
Identity in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Chapter 9: The New Order: Diversions and Modernization in
Turn-of-the-Century Lima
Fanni Muñoz Cabrejo
Chapter 10: From the Ruins of the Ancien Régime: Mexico's Monument
to the Revolution
Thomas L. Benjamin
Chapter 11: Racial Parity and National Humor: Carmen Miranda's
Samba Performances, 1930–1939
Darién J. Davis
Chapter 12: Oil, Race, and Calypso in Trinidad and Tobago,
1909–1990
Graham E. L. Holton
Chapter 13: The Dictator's Seduction: Gender and State Spectacle
during the Trujillo Regime
Lauren H. Derby
Chapter 14: En el corazón del pueblo: Pedro Infante's Funeral, the
Pueblo Motif, and the Contest over his Legacy
Sal Acosta
Chapter 15: Nostalgia for the Future: The New Song Movement in
Nicaragua
Janet L. Sturman
William H. Beezley is professor of history at the University of Arizona. Linda A. Curcio-Nagy is associate professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno.
William Beezley and Linda Curcio-Nagy demonstrate the centrality of
popular culture to the understanding of history. They analyze song,
dance, ceremony, funerals, regalia, icons, exhibitions, protest,
and literature to measure values and provide deep insights
regarding class, gender, and race. This book is a tour de
force.
*John Mason Hart, University of Houston*
This revision of a foundational text on the history of Latin
American popular culture brings exciting energy to an already
dynamic field. New essays and the revised introduction further
expand our understanding of a wide range of everyday cultural
practices—music, dance, love letters, funerals, cooking, popular
celebrations—and their complex relationship with elite national
building projects. In conjunction with the best essays from the
previous edition, this new material gives us a fascinating,
provocative, and insightful glimpse into a vital aspect of Latin
American history—one that still eludes most historical studies of
the region. Reading this edition, I was struck even more forcibly
by the ingenuity of historians of popular culture and by the
impossibility of making sense of Latin American history without
it.
*Robert Buffington, University of Colorado*
Latin American Popular Culture since Independence demonstrates that
history can be serious fun. This wide-ranging collection leads the
reader along less traveled paths through Latin America’s last two
centuries. Moreover, it brings together a distinguished group of
talented researchers who share their expertise with wit and
sensitivity. The individual essays truly bring unvarnished
practices and unheralded historical actors to life, whether they
treat religion, dance, death, food, or forms of story telling.
Aside from describing past practices, these scholars also examine
historical efforts to alter and shape popular culture and fashion
national identity. It is a truly riveting examination of culture as
lived, invented, and often manipulated in modern Latin American
history.
*Edward Wright-Rios, Vanderbilt University*
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