| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Postmillennial pop
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Postmillennial pop.
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| Note |
"In an era of warming relations between the US and Cuba, this book updates the conversation about Cuban America by showing how this community has changed over the past 25 years. No longer a conservative Republican voting bloc, the majority of Cubans today want more engagement with the island instead of less. Laguna investigates the generational shifts and tensions in a Cuban America where the majority is now made up of immigrants who arrived since the 1990s and those born in the US."--Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Un tipo tópico: Alvarez Guedes takes the stage -- Cuban Miami on the air -- Nostalgic pleasures -- The transnational life of diversión -- Digital diversión: feeling Cuban online. |
| Summary |
In an era of warming relations between the US and Cuba, this book updates the conversation about Cuban America by revealing how this community has changed over the past 25 years. Albert Sergio Laguna investigates the generational shifts and tensions in a Cuban America where the majority is now made up of those who have arrived since the 1990s and those born in the US. To probe these changes, Laguna examines the aesthetic and social logics of a wide range of popular culture forms originating in Miami and Cuba from the 1970s through the 2010s. They include the stand-up comedy of performers like Alvarez Guedes, festivals, a media distribution network in Cuba called el paquete, morning radio shows, and the viral content of Los Pichy Boys, among others. This study illustrates the centrality of play in a community that has been described historically as angry and melancholic. Diversión contends that our understanding of the Cuban diaspora is lacking not in seriousness, but in play. By unpacking this archive, Laguna explores our complex, often-fraught attachments to popular culture and the way it can challenge and reproduce normative cultural ideologies-especially in relation to politics and race. In the wake of the largest Cuban migration wave to the US in history, Diversión is crucial reading for those who seek to understand not only the Cuban. American diaspora, but cultural and economic life on the island. Book jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cuban Americans -- Social life and customs.
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Cuban Americans -- Social life and customs. |
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Cuban Americans. |
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Cuban Americans -- Florida -- Miami -- Social life and customs.
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Florida -- Miami. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Popular culture -- Florida -- Miami.
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Popular culture. |
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Popular culture -- United States.
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Laguna, Albert Sergio. Diversión. New York : New York University Press, [2017] 9781479836017 (DLC) 2016052430 (OCoLC)961160722 |
| ISBN |
9781479820306 (electronic book) |
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147982030X (electronic book) |
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9781479836017 |
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147983601X |
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9781479846146 |
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1479846147 |
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