Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
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ANNUAL · 6 x 9 · 224 PAGES/ISSUE · ISSN 0730-9139 · E-ISSN 2157-2941
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, an annual interdisciplinary journal, publishes articles, review essays, and interviews on diverse aspects of popular culture in Latin America. Articles are written in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Recent Issues
Volume 37 (2019)
Volume 36 (2018)
Volume 35 (2017)
Volume 34 (2016)
Volume 33 (2015)
Volume 32 (2014)
Volume 31 (2013)
Volume 30 (2012)
Volume 29 (2011)
Volume 28, 2010
Volume 27 (2008)
Volume 26 (2007)
Volume 25 (2006)
Volume 24 (2005)
Volume 23 (2004)
Volume 22 (2003)
Volume 21 (2002)
Volume 20 (2001)
Volume 19 (2000)
Volume 18 (1999)
Volume 17 (1998)
Volume 16 (1997)
Volume 15 (1996)
Volume 14 (1995)
Volume 13 (1994)
Volume 12 (1993)
Volume 11 (1992)
Volume 10 (1991)
Volume 9 (1990)
Volume 8 (1989)
Volume 7 (1988)
Volume 6 (1987)
Volume 5 (1986)
Volume 4 (1985)
Volume 3 (1984)
Volume 2 (1983)
Volume 1 (1982)
- Chilean Boy Scout Magazines as Literary Campfires: Masculinities and Nationality through Scoutista Short Stories
- Parker Shaw
- "Gracias a la vida": Violeta Went to Heaven and Came Back Wearing a K-Pop Miniskirt
- Moises Park
- El archivo inasible: Hacia una nueva conceptualizacion del archivo sonoro de la industria discografica antioquena
- Carolina Santamaria-Delgado
- Viaje al corazon de las tinieblas: Cronicias, ficci...
Volume 36 (2018)
- Paving the Way to Pavones: Property Wars, Narratives of Discovery, and the Fantasy of Surfing Paradise
- Alexander Sotelo Eastman
- Shift in Social Character: Charro Cultural Representations in Mexican Popular Culture
- Beatriz Aldana Márquez
- The Migration Genre in La jaula de oro: Voids and Virtues
- Richard Curry
- From Papiamentu to Afro-Catholic Brotherhoods: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Iberian Elements in Cura...
Volume 35 (2017)
- Gifting the Cultural-Capitalist State: Consuming Popular Art and Performing Citizenship in Mexico’s Museums
- Mary K. Coffey
- Resisting the Dominant Gaze: Prison Works by Brazilian Artist Rosângela Rennó and Filmmaker Maria Augusta Ramos
- Marguerite Itamar Harrison
- Escorts afrolatinos en la era digital, o el arte de los masajistas
- Sebastián Reyes Gil
- Among Races, Nations, and Diasporas: Genealogies of “La bamba” in...
Volume 34 (2016)
- Cutting Cárdenas: Revising the Revolutionary Family in 1980s Mexico
- Melanie Huska
- Centro del Margen: Crónica de un día en un estudio de grabación clandestino de música rap en Buenos Aires
- Melisa Rivière
- De Electrodomésticos a Los Prisioneros: La música electrónica, el pop y la crítica del “milagro chileno”
- Irene Depetris Chauvin
- Tango and Cumbia villera: Origins, Encounters, and Tensions
- Mara Favorett...
Volume 33 (2015)
- “En el vórtice de la enajenación”: Nicolás Guillén Landrián y la implosión del documental científico-popular cubano de los 60
- Santiago Juan-Navarro
- Charytín Goyco, la rubia de América: A Case Study of Television Stardom in the Dominican Republic in the 1970s
- Danny Méndez
- Popular Culture, Politics, and Alternative Gender Imaginaries in 1960s and 1970s Argentina
- Adriana Premat
- El santo de la espada: Building Nationh...
Volume 32 (2014)
Volume 31 (2013)
Volume 30 (2012)
Volume 29 (2011)
Volume 28, 2010
Volume 27 (2008)
Volume 26 (2007)
Volume 25 (2006)
Volume 24 (2005)
Volume 23 (2004)
Volume 22 (2003)
Volume 21 (2002)
Volume 20 (2001)
Volume 19 (2000)
Volume 18 (1999)
Volume 17 (1998)
Volume 16 (1997)
Volume 15 (1996)
Volume 14 (1995)
Volume 13 (1994)
Volume 12 (1993)
Volume 11 (1992)
Volume 10 (1991)
Volume 9 (1990)
Volume 8 (1989)
Volume 7 (1988)
Volume 6 (1987)
Volume 5 (1986)
Volume 4 (1985)
Volume 3 (1984)
Volume 2 (1983)
Volume 1 (1982)
Submissions:
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture invites you to submit scholarly articles, book review essays, and interviews on the theory and practice of popular culture in Latin America. Articles should not exceed thirty-five double-spaced pages (including illustrations, charts, and graphs), should be in English, Spanish, or Portuguese, and should follow the latest edition of the Modern Language Association guidelines or the Chicago Manual of Style. If there is any inconsistency in the use of one or the other style, the essay will not be published in SLAPC. Authors are asked not to rely exclusively on online bibliographic tools such as RefWorks or Google Scholar to generate the “Works Cited” in either style, as we have found them to contain errors. All essays must be accompanied by an abstract of 150-200 words in English that concisely discusses the content and scope of the study and highlights all major findings. Extensive endnotes and footnotes are discouraged. Submissions should be sent by email to mfitch@email.arizona.edu in a Word-compatible attachment. In the body of the main message, authors should include the title of their manuscript, institutional affiliation, home and work address. The author's name should not appear in the header or footer of the attachment.
Illustrations are welcome. Photographs and other images may be submitted as they are, or as high-resolution electronic files (e.g., TIFF, JPEG, PNG, etc.; not embedded into a Word document). Please make sure to provide captions that briefly describe content and source. It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to use copyrighted or privately owned images, song lyrics, poetry, or other third-party material. Identify illustrations by Figure (1, 2, 3 . . .) at the head of the accompanying caption and in the text, and indicate in the text your preferred location for each figure, e.g., "Figure 1 about here."
Inquiries should be directed to:
Melissa A. Fitch, Editor
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Modern Languages Building, Room 545
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0067
Manuscripts must not be submitted elsewhere while being reviewed by the journal's editorial board and outside readers.
Editorial Policy
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, an annual interdisciplinary journal, publishes articles, review essays, and interviews on diverse aspects of popular culture in Latin America. Since its inception in 1982, the journal has defined popular culture broadly as "some aspect of culture which is accepted by or consumed by significant numbers of people." This definition has had one caveat: it does not normally include what is frequently called folk culture or folklore. Within these parameters, submissions are welcome on any aspect of the production, circulation, and consumption of cultural goods in Latin America from any disciplinary perspective.
In addition, the journal seeks essays that offer new methodological and theoretical approaches to the subject; explore the impact of modernization and globalization on Latin American cultural practices; discuss the implications of cultural hybridity; examine popular culture as a site of contention over social meanings and relations of power in cultural practices; and study relations between sociopolitical phenomena and cultural expression. SLAPC will generally not accept theoretical essays that do not have an empirical ground or essays that engage in close reading of individual texts, unless the analysis has broader theoretical or methodological implications. The essays should be written in a lively, reader-friendly manner. Over specialized and discipline-specific terminology is discouraged.
One section of the journal is devoted to book review essays, which both critically review a given corpus of books and reflect on their larger significance for the study of popular culture, including future research possibilities. The journal also publishes interviews with those involved in the creation, distribution, and consumption of popular culture.
Articles may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Book Review Guidelines
Reviews should be in Microsoft Word using Times New Roman or equivalent. Font size should be set at twelve and the line spacing should be at least 18 points. While this is the preferred format for review copy, other formats will be accepted as noted in the "Instructions to Contributors." If at all possible, book review copy should be sent as an email attachment to: pobutsky@oakland.edu. Reviews should be more critically focused than simply a commentary on the book and should draw the reader's attention on how the book fits into scholarship dealing with popular culture and current theories and practices. Reviews of single books should be no longer than 800 words. Review essays should integrate the books reviewed into a coherent theme driven by the content of the book and should be about 800 words per book (e.g., three books would result in an essay of some 2400 words) including introductory and concluding comments.
Those interested in serving as future book reviewers should send a short vita statement. This statement should focus on the area of popular culture scholarship where the reviewer wishes to provide reviews. It is critical that you include an email address in your statement. It is our desire to establish a pool of interested reviewers so that we can provide our readers with a variety of views and a geographic distribution of reviewers reflective of the SLAPC readership.
Publishers wishing to have books reviewed should send only those titles that fit into the framework established in the "Editorial Policy."
Submit review copies of print publications to:
Aldona Pobutsky, Book Review Editor
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
407 Wilson Hall
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309-4401
Editorial Office:
Editor
Melissa A. Fitch
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
Modern Languages Bldg., Room 545
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0067
Book Review Editor
Aldona Pobutsky
Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures
407 Wilson Hall
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309-4401
Indexers:
Articles appearing in SLAPC are abstracted or indexed in America: History and Life, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Communication Abstracts, Contents of Periodicals on Latin America, Current Contents/Arts and Humantities, Hispanic American Periodical Index, Historical Abstracts, IBR (International Bibliography of Book Reviews), IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures, Revista Interamericana de Bibliografia/Inter-American Review of Bibliography, and SCOPUS.
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