1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture

Edited By Frederick Luis Aldama Copyright 2016
    464 Pages
    by Routledge

    464 Pages
    by Routledge

    Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, performance art, food, lowrider culture, theatre, photography, dance, pulp fiction, music, comic books, video games, news, web, and digital media, healing rituals, quinceñeras, and much more.





    Features include:









    • consideration of differences between pop culture made by and about Latina/os;






    • comprehensive and critical analyses of various pop cultural forms;






    • concrete and detailed treatments of major primary works from children’s television to representations of dia de los muertos;






    • new perspectives on the political, social, and historical dynamic of Latina/o pop culture;






    Chapters select, summarize, explain, contextualize and assess key critical interpretations, perspectives, developments and debates in Latina/o popular cultural studies. A vitally engaging and informative volume, this compliation of wide-ranging case studies in Latina/o pop culture phenomena encourages scholars and students to view Latina/o pop culture within the broader study of global popular culture.





    Contributors: Stacey Alex, Cecilia Aragon, Mary Beltrán, William A. Calvo-Quirós, Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Nicholas Centino, Ben Chappell, Fabio Chee, Osvaldo Cleger, David A. Colón, Marivel T. Danielson, Laura Fernández, Camilla Fojas, Kathryn M. Frank, Enrique García, Christopher González, Rachel González-Martin, Matthew David Goodwin, Ellie D. Hernandez, Jorge Iber, Guisela Latorre, Stephanie Lewthwaite, Richard Alexander Lou, Stacy I. Macías, Desirée Martin, Paloma Martínez-Cruz, Pancho McFarland, Cruz Medina, Isabel Millán, Amelia

    INTRODUCTION. PUTTING THE POP IN LATINO CULTURE.



    CHAPTER 1. LATINA/OS ON TV!: A Proud (and Ongoing) Struggle Over Representation and Authorship CHAPTER 2. LATINO FILM IN THE END TIMES



    CHAPTER 3. "¡VÁMONOS! LET’S GO!": Latina/o Children’s Television



    CHAPTER 4. BRANDING "LATINOHOOD," JUAN BOBO, AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF DORA THE EXPLORER



    CHAPTER 5. CANTA Y NO LLORES: Life & Latinidad in Children’s Animation



    CHAPTER 6. BEYOND THE "DIGITAL DIVIDE" & LATINA/O POP



    CHAPTER 7. WHY VIDEOGAMES: Ludology Meets Latino Studies



    Chapter 8. The Industry & Aesthetics of Latino Comic Books



    Chapter 9. SCIENCE FICTION AND Latino Studies Today… and in the Future



    CHAPTER 10. THE TECHNOLOGY OF LABOR, MIGRATION, AND PROTEST



    CHAPTER 11. PERFORMING MESTIZAJE: Making Indigenous Acts Visible in Latina/o Popular Culture



    CHAPTER 12. BROWN BODIES ON GREAT WHITE WAY: Latina/o Theater, Pop Culture, and Broadway



    CHAPTER 13. SIEMPRE PA’L ARTE: The Passions of Latina/o Spoken Word



    CHAPTER 14. POSTINDUSTRIAL PINTO POETICS AND NEW MILLENNIAL MAIZ NARRATIVES: Race and Place in Chicano Hip Hop



    CHAPTER 15. PUNK SPANGLISH



    CHAPTER 16. LATINO RADIO AND COUNTER EPISTEMOLOGIES



    CHAPTER 17. HERMANDAD, ARTE & REBELDÍA: Mexican Popular Art in New York City



    CHAPTER 18. INEXACT REVOLUTIONS: Understanding Latino Pop Art



    CHAPTER 19. INSTALLATION ART, TRANSNATIONALISM AND THE CHINESE-CHICANO EXPERIENCE



    CHAPTER 20. REVISING THE ARCHIVE: Documentary Portraiture in the Photography of Delilah Montoya



    CHAPTER 21. FARMWORKER-TO-TABLE MEXICAN: Decolonizing Haute Cuisine



    CHAPTER 22. THE RITUALS OF HEALTH



    CHAPTER 23. LOWRIDER PUBLICS: Aesthetics and Contested Communities



    CHAPTER 24. BARRIO RITUAL AND POP RITE: Quinceañeras in the Folklore-Popular Culture Borderlands



    CHAPTER 25. CULTURA JOTERIA: The Ins and O

    Biography

    Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University where he is also founder and director of LASER and the Humanities & Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute. He is author, co-author, and editor of over 24 books, including the Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature and Latino/a Literature in the Classroom.