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Editor: Melissa A. Fitch, The University of Arizona
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.
Studies in Latin American Popular Culture is indexed or abstracted in America: History and Life, Anthropological Index Online, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Communication Abstracts, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, Film Literature Index, Hispanic American Periodical Index, Historical Abstracts, Humanities International Index, MLA International Bibliography, Revista Interamericana de Bibliografia/Inter-American Review of Bibliography, and SCOPUS.
Manuscripts and editorial correspondence: The Editor, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Modern Languages Bldg., Room 545, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0067.
Information for Contributors
Submissions Guidelines
Editorial Policy
Books for Review
Volume 30 (2012)
Volume 29 (2011)
Volume 28 (2010)
Volume 27 (2008)
Volume 26 (2007)
Volume 25 (2006)
SLAPC Archives
Volume 30 (2012)
- Stamps of South American Antarctica, the South Atlantic
Islands, and Popular Culture
- Jack Child
- Capturing the Bronze Power on the Silver Screen: An Epic Journey in Twenty Minutes
- Irfan Cenk Yay
- Aterciopelados’ Musical Testimony: Bearing Witness to Colombia’s Traumas
- Henry Morello
- Mexican or Chilean: Mexican Ranchera Music and Nationalism in Chile
- Jedrek Putta Mularski
- El extraño caso del Dr. Nesse: ambigüedad y desestabilización del espacio urbano de Rio de Janeiro en Perseguido (2003), de Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
- Natalia Jacovkis
- Illegal Immigration through the Eyes of a Child: Patricia Riggen’s La misma luna
- Caryn C. Connelly
- Perverse Fascinations and Atrocious Acts: An Approach to The Secret in Their Eyes by Juan José Campanella
- Hugo Hortiguera
- La Comay: An Examination of the Puerto Rican Comadre as a Feminist Icon, Patriarchal Stereotype, and Television Tabloid Host
- Melissa Camacho
- Is It Just about Love?: Filin and Politics in Prerevolutionary Cuba
- Cary Aileen García Yero
- Japanese Perceptions of Argentine Tango: Cultural and Gender Differences
- Etsuko Toyoda
- Montecristo: Telenovela y derechos humanos
- Martín Sueldo
Interviews
- Desarrollando una óptica queer: coloquio con David William Foster
- W. Daniel Holcombe
- Feminicide and the Disintegration of the Family Fabric in Ciudad Juárez: An Interview with Lourdes Portillo
- Alice Driver
- Narrar la violencia. Entrevista a Jorge Franco
- Raúl Rodríguez Freire
Book Reviews and Review Essays
- Bringing Aztlán to Mexican Chicago: My Life, My Work, My Art by José Gamaliel González
- Reviewed by Don Cellini
- Alejandro González Iñárritu by Celestino Deleyto and María del Mar Azcona
- Reviewed by Gerardo Cummings
- Latin American Politics and Development Eds. Howard J. Wiarda and Harvey F. Kline
- Reviewed by Martín Camps
- Drug War Zone: Frontline Dispatches from the Streets of El Paso and Juárez by Howard Campbell
- Reviewed by Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
- Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance during the Cold War by Héctor Amaya
- Reviewed by Traci Roberts-Camps
- Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City by Lorrin Thomas
- Reviewed by Víctor Figueroa
Volume 29 (2011)
- “La carrera de la muerte”: Death, Driving, and Rituals of Modernization in 1950s Mexico
- J. Brian Freeman
- Memories of Che: Forging a Postmodern Radicalism in Cultural Studies?
- John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco
- Mulas y arrieros: Narcotráfi co y los correos de la cocaine en la literatura colombiana contemporánea
- Jorge González del Pozo
- What Is a Corrido? Musical Analysis and Narrative Function
- Ric Alviso
- Telling Identities: Crime Narratives for Local and International Markets in María, Full of Grace (Marston, 2004) and Rosario Tijeras (Maillé, 2005)
- Florencia Cortés-Conde
- From Girly Men to Manly Men: The Evolving Representation of Male Homosexuality in Twenty-First Century Telenovelas
- Julee Tate
- “Amarrado al recuerdo”—The Memory Dimension in Classical Tango Lyrics
- J.N.F.M à Campo
- How to Read Chico Bento: Brazilian Comics and National Identity
- Jennifer Manthei
- Actuar para (sobre)vivir: Rock nacional y cumbia villera en Argentina
- Timothy Wilson y Mara Favoretto
- El narcocorrido religioso: usos y abusos de un género
- Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta
Interviews
- On Pirate Cinema and Crying in Airports: A Conversation with Alberto Fuguet
- Brantley Nicholson and Lucia Reinaga
- La ficción paranoica y el nacimiento de la novela policial:
una entrevista con Ricardo Piglia
- Camilo Hernández-Castellanos y Jeff Lawrence
Book Reviews and Review Essays
- Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment Ed. Darlene J. Sadlier
- Reviewed by Cacilda Rêgo
- Sujetos transnacionales: la negociación en cine y literatura by Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios
- Reviewed by Cecilia Saenz-Roby
- La novela sicaresca. Testimonio, sensacionalismo y ficción by Margarita Jácome
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- Reviewed Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky
- The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music by Eric A. Galm
- Reviewed by Marcus Brasileiro
Volume 28, 2010
Latin America at the World's Fair
- Exhibiting Indigenous Peoples: Bolivians and the Chicago Fair of 1893
- Nancy Egan
- Bridging the Gulf: Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina on Display at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
- Nancy J. Parezo and Lisa Munro
- "Iceberg! Right Ahead!" (Re)Discovering Chile at the 1992 Universal Exposition in Seville, Spain
- Erika Korowin
- Viva Mexico! World's Fair Exhibits and Souvenirs: The Shaping of Collective Consciousness
- Zahra M. Moss
- Investigating World's Fairs: an Historiography
- Lisa Munro
Mexicans and Mexican-Americans at Mid-Twentieth Century: Gender and Fashion
- La ropa cosmica: Identity and Fashion in 1940s Mexico
- Monica A. Rankin
- Zoot to Boot: The Zoot Suit as Both Costume and Symbol
- Sarah Elizabeth Howard
- Club de senoritas: Productions of Mexican Femininity
- Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante
Review Essay
- Amazonian Intertextualities
- Malcolm K. McNee
Volume 27 (2008)
- Popular Culture in the Perón Years: A Philatelic Approach
- Jack Child
- The Rise and Fall of Samba-Chanchadas Starring Kid Morengueira: Malandragem, Nationalism, and the Cinematic Sambas of Moreira da Silva and Miguel Gustavo (1960-1972)
- Jerry D. Metz
- Bolívar I am: Telenovela, Performance, and Colombian National Identity
- Nayibe Bermúdez Barrios
- Making the Peripheral Palpable: Nordeste Roots and Elements of Social Consciousness in the Fiction of Marcelino Freire and the Music of Lenine
- Marguerite Itamar Harrison
- What is Left in the World of Books: Washington Cucurto and the Eloisa Cartonera Project in Argentina
- Ksenija Bilbija
- Brazuca in NOLA: A Cultural Analysis of Brazilian Immigration to New Orleans Post-Katrina
- Anne Gibson
- Sobre la estética del graffiti Hip Hop
- Gricelda Figueroa Irarrázabal
- Embracing Hip Hop as Their Own: Hip Hop and Black Racial Identity in Brazil
- Bernd Reiter and Gladys L. Mitchell
- Trickster, Traveler, Cultural Hero: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
- Rebecca Carte
- Marxismo, peronismo, indocriollismo: Atahualpa Yupanqui y el norte argentino
- Yolanda Fabiola Orquera
- Cultura Popular no Nordeste do Brazil: Narrativas de Identidade Social
- Jorge França de Farias Jr.
- Rede Globo: A TV que virou estrela de cinema
- Cacilda M. Rêgo
Interview
- Conversaciones íntimas con un palero, santero y babalawo cubano: Nelson Aboy Domingo
- Rosa Elena Carrasquillo
Book Reviews and Review Essays
- Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad's Carnival Musics by Jocelyne Guilbault
- Reviewed by Benjamin Fraser
- Music of the Mill by Luis J. Rodríguez
- Reviewed by Sergio M. Martínez
- Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America by Frank Graziano
- Reviewed by Vania Barraza
- Latinos: A Biography of the People by Earl Shorris
- Reviewed by Anthony Nuño Avila
- El Viejo Paulino, poética popular de Julián Garza
- Reviewed by Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta
Volume 26 (2007)
- A Tale of Two Texts: Orality, Oral History and Poetic Insult in the Desafio of Romano and Inacio in Patos (1874)
- Linda Lewin
- The Cinergetic, Experimental Melodrama: Feminism and Neo-Machista National Consciousness in Mexican Film
- Juli A. Kroll
- Balancing Freyre's Vision with Brazil's "Racial Democracy": Dos Santo's Casa Grande e Senzala Por Gilberto Freyre
- Charles Heath
- Chronicles of Mexico City Life: The Music of Rockdrigo González
- Mark Hernandez
- Performative Masculinities: the Pachuco and the Luchador in the Songs of Maldita Vecindad and Café Tacuba
- Nohemy Solórzano-Thompson
- The Good and Bad Women of Telenovelas: How to Tell Them Apart Using a Simple Maternity Test
- Julee Tate
- Nueve reinas: A Sign of the Times (to come)
- Donetta Hines
- Popular Sovereignty, Bakhtin, and the Sea in Jorge Amado's Religion
- Piers Armstrong
- Violeta Parra, Radio Chilena, and the 'Battle in Defense of the Authentic' during the 1950s in Chile
- Ericka Verba
- Riding Against the Wave? Caballos salvajes and its Critique of Neoliberal Culture
- Carolina Rocha
- La Habana: una ciudad que nunca duerme. Género y escritura en y después del periodo especial
- María Del Mar López-Cabrales
- Gaucho Gazetteers, Popular Literature, and Politics in the Río de la Plata
- William Acree
Book Reviews and Review Essays
- Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu by Cristina Magaldi
- Reviewed by Ronald Dolkart
Volume 25 (2006)
- Constructions and Commodifications of Isthmus Zapotec Women
- Jayne Howell
- De bandolero a ejemplo moral: Los corridos sobre Jesús Malverde, el
santo amante de la música
- Kristín Guðrún Jónsdóttir
- El Santos vs Tetona Mendoza: Wrestling with Mexico's Experimental Comic Book Narratives
- Daniel Ribot
- Estridentópolis: The Public Life of the Avant-Garde in Veracruz, 1925-1927
- Elissa Rashkin
- The Image of the Creole Criminal in Argentine Popular Culture: 1880-1930
- Donald S. Castro
- The Promised Land: Resonance and Dissonance of Hollywood's Portrayals of Latin Americans in Film
- John L. Marambio and Chad Tew
- Mi Familia Rara: Why Paco Isn't Married
- Daniel Enrique Pérez
- Revolución y producción cultural del MST: Inicios de su alegorización en
la música de la telenovela O Rei do Gado
- Angélica J. Huízar
- Reading Televisually: Representing Reality in Miguel Barnet's La Vida Real, Manuel Puig's Eternal Curse on the Reader of These Pages, and
Blake's Therapy by Ariel Dorfman
- Susana S. Martínez
- Narradores contra la ficción: La narración detectivesca como estrategia
política
- Benjamin R. Fraser
- Entrevista con Andres Cascioli
- Annette H. Levine
- Las Vueltas de Fierro: Dos versiones del gaucho en el Cine Argentino
- Pablo Martínez Gramuglia
- Annemarie Heinrich; Photography, Women's Bodies, and Semiotic Excess
- David William Foster
- Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Popular Music and Ethnic Identities
- Christopher Dennis
Submissions Guidelines
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. 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 in high-resolution electronic format. 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. 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; study relations between socio-political 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
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