Pop Culture Latin America!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle

by Lisa Shaw, Stephanie Dennison

Overview

A survey of contemporary Latin American popular culture, covering topics that range from music and film to popular festivals and fashion.

Like no other volume of its kind, Pop Culture Latin America! captures the breadth and vitality of pop culture in Central and South America and the Caribbean, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of its unique melange of art, entertainment, spirituality, and celebrations.

Written by contributors who are scholars and specialists in the cultures and languages of Latin America, the book focuses on the historical, social, and political forces that have shaped Latino culture since 1945, particularly in the last two decades. Separate chapters cover music, popular cinema, mass media, theater and performance, literature, cultural heroes, religions and festivals, social movements and politics, the visual arts and architecture, sports and leisure, travel and tourism, and language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851095049
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/14/2005
Series:	Popular Culture in the Contemporary World
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.94(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Lisa Shaw, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Leeds University, Leeds, England, specializing in Brazilian popular culture.

Stephanie Dennison, PhD, is a lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and director of the Masters Program in World Cinema at the University of Leeds, Leeds, England.