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

by Lisa Shaw and Stephanie Dennison

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1851095047
• ISBN13: 9781851095049
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Maradona has gone to seed

In the book is a hilarious photo of Diego Maradona, with Julio Iglesias and Susana Gimenez, taken in 2004. Well, I guess it is funny. It shows Maradona as quite plump. Since his retirement from football, he has ballooned up impressively. Maybe it is sad, to those of his many fans who watched him lead Argentina to many victories. Overall, the book has many short articles on various aspects on popular culture in Latin America. Mexico, Brazil and Argentina dominate, unsurprisingly. Topics include music. There are many varied styles across the region. Even within Mexico, for example, there are differences. Like the nortena sound out of Monterrey. TV and the ever-present telenovelas are another major cultural focus. Very much a mass media. The text also discusses the written word and major writers. A somewhat more specialised appeal within those countries.