Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture

(Hardback)

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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.

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"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

Author Bio

Charles M. Tatum, PhD, is professor of Spanish and Chicano studies at the University of Arizona.