Chicano Popular Culture Que Hable el Pueblo

Name: Chicano Popular Culture Que Hable el Pueblo
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ISBN: 9780816519835

ISBN-10: 0816519838

ISBN-13: 9780816519835

Edition: 2001

Authors: Charles M. Tatum

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Over the past several decades,Mexican Americans have made an indelible mark on American culture through the music of bands such as Santana and Los Lobos, films such asZoot Suit,and a wide range of literature, such as Sandra Cisneros'sThe House on Mango Street. Now Charles Tatum introduces students to these and other forms of artistic expression in the first volume to provide a wide-ranging overview of Chicano popular culture. Tatum explores the broad and complex arena of popular culture among Americans of Mexican descent and explains what popular culture can tell them about themselves. Reviewing a range of expressive arts, from traditional forms to electronic media, he explains the…

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 8/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 1.00" wide x 1.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Charles M. Tatum, PhD, is professor of Spanish and Chicano studies at the University of Arizona. He was for 15 years dean of College of Humanities. He has written and edited several books on Chicana/o literature and popular culture, including Greenwood's "Lowriders in Chicano Culture: From Low to Slow to Show".



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List of Acronyms


Introduction: The Study of Popular Culture



Definitions and Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture


Definitions of Popular Culture


Theoretical Approaches to Popular Culture



Music


Popular Hispanic Folk Music of the Southwest


Musica Tejana


Chicano Music on the West Coast


Trans-Regional Chicano Music



Cinema


Race and Ethnicity in American Movies


Hollywood's Portrayal of Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the 1910s through the 1970s


Chicano Cinema


Chicano Feature-Length Films Since the 1970s


Hollywood Hispanic Films


The Current State of Chicanos in U.S. Cinema



Chicano Cinema of the Late 1960s through the 1990s



Newspapers, Radio, and Television


Newspapers


Radio


Television



Popular Literature


Popular Writers Pre-1965


The Chicano Movement and the Forming of an Artistic Consciousness


The Ascendancy of Popular Writing by Chicanas


Current Chicano Popular Literature



Art, Celebrations, and Other Popular Traditions


Popular Art


Celebrations


Other Popular Traditions


Conclusion


Works Cited


Index