"The essays and entries in this book will allow us to see how history, politics, gender, race and class all affect the lives and practices of everyday citizens

Outside of music, the importance of sound and listening have been greatly overlooked in Latin American history. Visual media has dominated cultural studies, aff

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This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean. In recent times,

Explores a wide range of cultural phenomena to examine both national symbolic orders and national/global tensions resulting from a climate of conflicting econom