Aficionados, academics, and Danzón expertise: exploring hierarchies in popular music knowledge production

Amateur scholars, such as aficionados, fans, intellectuals, are rarely valued in the twenty-first-century academy, despite their often-encyclopedic knowledge. In this paper, I focus on Mexican aficionados of the popular Cuban music danzón to explore how these mostly older men manage social contexts where they are often marginalized. Drawing on Bourdieu, I examine how danzón aficionados negotiate their field of expertise by employing overlapping strategies: accumulating myriad "facts" and "truths", creating the possibility of ignorance in others, and competing for hegemonic masculine capital. I analyze danzón aficionados' relationships with musicians and dancers, consider power dynamics between these aficionados and academics, and draw on Léon and Romero to discuss relationships between regional and hegemonic scholarship more broadly. I argue that beyond reflexivity and criticism, collective activism is required to reconfigure value systems and symbolic economies, and to fight institutional pressures to reproduce existing power structure

A Woman’s Loss of Imagination: Paola Masino’s Magical Realism in Nascita e morte della Massaia

Criticism on Paola Masino has flourished since the early 2000s. This increased attention has contributed towards reclaiming an author often overshadowed by the attention received by her partner, Massimo Bontempelli, the father of realismo magico. Masino experimented with a variety of styles—realismo magico was one of them—as she rejected strictly naturalistic forms of representation, preferring to co-opt myths and the supernatural. Nascita e morte della Massaia (1945) is Masino’s most renowned literary effort, both for its critique of Fascist Italy and for its sophisticated stylistic effects. Nascita, while indebted to Bontempelli’s theorizations, features all the chief characteristics listed in Faris’s analysis of magical realism as an international phenomenon, and illustrates how magical realism offers strategies for evading censorship to those writing against totalitarianism regimes. At the same time, it is an example of how magical realism can be used to denounce socially imposed gender roles. My analysis shows how this narrative mode emerges on multiple levels within Masino’s text

The kingdom of this world: kerajaan kaum budak

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Reflexiones sobre la arquitectura moderna [1932]

Inclou un article d'en Roberto Segre. Le Corbusier y Alejo Carpentier: simetrías y asimetrías especulares.Incluye un articulo de Roberto Segre. Le Corbusier y Alejo Carpentier: simetrías y asimetrías especulares.Peer Reviewe

Reflexiones sobre la arquitectura moderna [1932]

Inclou un article d'en Roberto Segre. Le Corbusier y Alejo Carpentier: simetrías y asimetrías especulares.Incluye un articulo de Roberto Segre. Le Corbusier y Alejo Carpentier: simetrías y asimetrías especulares.Peer Reviewe

El Camino de Santiago.

Monográfico: El Camino de Santiag