Studies in Latin American Popular Culture Recent Issues

Articles

• “Times of Extreme Broadcasting”: Argentine Socialism and Mass Culture during the Rise of Commercial Radio (1920-1945)

by Javier Guiamet

• “Cuando yo quiera has de volver”: Configuraciones de masculinidad y feminidad en las canciones de Juan Gabriel para Rocío Dúrcal

by Julio Uribe Ugalde

• Body as Text: Challenging Marginalized Identities through Literary Performance in Contemporary Brazilian Saraus

by Annie Gibson

• Old Gringo y la frontera filmica de Carlos Fuentes

by Marcos Pico Rentería

• También la lluvia y Altiplano: Trauma transgeneracional y renegociación histórica en un contexto transcultural

by Lucía Garvito

• Suspenso en el noticiero: Representación de la guerrilla en Canal 10 Córdoba, Argentina, 1970-1977

by Cynthia Tompkins

• La perpetuación de la problemática racial con el uso del romance interracial como intertexto metafórico entre la novela Sab y la telenovela La esclava blanca

by Valérie Benoist

• The Tyrannical Mother in Mexican Telenovelas

by Julie Tate

• El juego de la vida, o cómo Televisa imaginó la pasión femenina por el futbol mexicano

by Alejandro González Landeros

Book Reviews and Review Essays

• ¡Una historia temprana del crimen organizado en los corridos de Ciudad Juárez, by Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta

Reviewed by Martin Mulligan

• A History of Boxing in Mexico: Masculinity, Modernity and Nationalism, by Stephen D. Allen

Reviewed by Daniel J. Nappo

• Narcotransmisiones: Neoliberalismo e hiperconsumo en la era del #narcopop, edited by Danilo Santos, Ainhoa Vásquez, and Ingrid Urgelles

Reviewed by Catalina Gallardo Arenas

• Cultural Nationalism and Ethnic Music in Latin America, edited by William H. Beezley

Reviewed by Christine J. Fernández

• In Search of the Sacred Book: Religion and the Contemporary Latin American Novel, by Aníbal González

Reviewed by Nathan J. Gordon

• Portraits in the Andes: Photography and Agency 1900-1950, by Jorge Coronado

Reviewed by Nathan J. Gordon

Articles

• Zombies as Temporal Critique: Sudor frío (2010) and Generations of Youth in Post-dictatorship Argentina

by Charles St-Georges

• “Glope, não!”: Twenty-First-Century Brazilian Songs of Protest

by Ligia Bezerra

• Cuerpo, memoria y empatía: Procesos de creación colectiva en torno a la figura de Violeta Parra

by M Paz Brozas y Miguel Vicente

• Ex-voto: Folk, Outsider, Transnational—Debating Definitions

by Lorella Di Gregorio

• Gendered Figure Lighting, Artifice, and Realism in Rosaura a las diez

by Matt Losada

• Víctor Gaviria’s Mujer del animal and the Banality of Violence against Women

by Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky

• Contigo en la distancia: Colombia, Galicias y el necocio narco entre la realidad y la ficcíon; entre el humor y el dramatismo

by Sabrina S. Laroussi

• La realidad que triunfa sobre la forma: La novela negra en Mario Mendoza, Lady Masacre

by Adriana Sara Jastrzebska

• White Subjectivity and Black Nationalism in José Muñoz and Carlos Sampayo’s Alack Sinner Comic “Vietblues” (1975)

by Christopher Conway

Book Reviews and Review Essays

• ¡Destape! Sex, Democracy, and Freedom in Postdictorial Agrentina, by Natalia Milanesio

Reviewed by Maria Cecilia Saenz-Roby

• Hollywood in Havanna: US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959, by Megan Feeney

Reviewed by Matthew Carey Greenhalgh

• Comics and Memory in Latin America, edited by Jorge Catalá Carrasco, Paulo Drinot, and James Scorer

Reviewed by George Cole

• Mexican Costumbrismo: Race, Society, and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Art, by Mey-Yen Moriuchi

Reviewed by Nathan J. Gordon

• The Supernatural Sublime: The Wondrous Ineffability of the Everyday in Films from Mexico and Spain, by Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández and Claudia Schaefer

Reviewed by Matthew Carey Greenhalgh

• The Heart of the Mission: Latino Arts and Politics in San Francisco, by Cary Cordova

Reviewed by Allison L. Glover

• Thinking about Music from Latin America: Issues and Questions, edited by Jan Pablo González, translated by Nancy Morris

Reviewed by Christine Fernández

Articles

• YouTube Kitsch and the Racial Politics of Taste in the Andes: The Case of Delfin Quishpe

by Ignacio Aguilo

• La Palmada en la Frente (1970): Political Cartoon, the Global Sixties, and Popular Culture in Chile

by Matias Hermosilla

• Politicians on Campaign: Cristina Fernández’s Visual and Discursive Strategies of Persuasion in the Parliamentary Election of 2017

by Hugo Hortiguera and Mara Favoretto

• Breaking the Middle East Media Paradigm: HispanTV Streaming Politics in Spanish from Iran

by Mauricio Duarte and Ángela M. González-Echeverry

• Tiburcio González Rojas: Photographic Avatars of Modern Paraguay

by David William Foster

• De héroe a superhéroe: Encantos y desencantos del milagro económico chileno en El reemplazante

by Maria del Carmen Caña Jiménez

• Un amigo americano: Lincoln Kirstein en Argentina en los años de la politica del Buen Vecino

by Andrea Matallana

• Música popular y resistencia politica en Venezuela (2002-2018)

by Patricia Valladares-Ruiz

Interview

• Kurt Hollander’s Joyous Life and the Architecture of Sex

Interviewed by Howard Campbell

Book Reviews and Review Essays

• Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil, by Christen A. Smith

Reviewed by Danielle Stewart

• Escape to Miami: An Oral History of the Cuban Rafter Crisis, by Elizabeth Campisi

Reviewed by Lorena Cuya Gavilano

• Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland, edited by Rudolfo Anaya, Francisco A. Lomelí, and Enrique R. Lamadrid

Reviewed by Rolando J. Diaz

• The Yorúbá God of Drumming: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wood that Talks, edited by Amanda Villepastour

Reviewed by George Cole

• Lalo Alcaraz: Political Cartooning in the Latino Community, by Héctor D. Fernández L’Hoeste

Reviewed by Jovana Pinedo Gómez