Cultural politics in a Latin American frame / Anny Brooksbank Jones -- Rhythm and poetry : politics, aesthetics and popular music in Brazil since 1960 / David Treece -- Political fables and aesthetic renewal / Sergio Chejfec -- Art/communication/technicity at century's end / Jesús Martín Barbero -- Surviving (on) the soup of signs : postmodernism, politics and culture in Cuba / Catherine Davies -- Violence in memory : translation, dramatization and performance of the past in Chile / Catherine Boyle -- Politics in the city : the cultural dimension / Beatriz Sarlo -- The ins and outs of Mapuche culture in Chile / Sara McFall and Roberto Morales -- Globalization and culture : five approaches to a single text / Martín Hopehayn -- Confronting the catastrophes of modernity : the cultural sociology of José Joaquín Brunner / Hernán Vidal -- Afterword : Postmodernism, politics and culture in Latin America / Ronaldo Munck.
The relations of culture and politics in Latin America have been transformed in recent decades. Cultural Politics in Latin America offers unprecedented insights into this process, with contributions from leading intellectuals and academics working in and outside the region. Chapters range across fields as diverse as music and anthropology, sociology and cultural memory, politics and (post)modern theorizing,The relations of culture and politics in Latin America have been transformed in recent decades. Cultural Politics in Latin America offers unprecedented insights into this process, with contributions from leading intellectuals and academics working in and outside the region. Chapters range across fields as diverse as music and anthropology, sociology and cultural memory, politics and (post)modern theorizing,The relations of culture and politics in Latin America have been transformed in recent decades. Cultural Politics in Latin America offers unprecedented insights into this process, with contributions from leading intellectuals and academics working in and outside the region. Chapters range across fields as diverse as music and anthropology, sociology and cultural memory, politics and (post)modern theorizing,",,,,,"The relations of culture and politics in Latin America have been transformed in recent decades. Cultural Politics in Latin America offers unprecedented insights into this process, with contributions from leading intellectuals and academics working in and outside the region. Chapters range across fields as diverse as music and anthropology, sociology and cultural memory, politics and (post)modern theorizing, economics, communications and cultural globalization, poetry, narrative and drama, and all are contextualized in the extended Introduction in Latin America.