TY - BOOK AU - Negrón-Muntaner,Frances TI - Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture T2 - Sexual Cultures Ser. SN - 9780814759141 AV - E184.P85 N44 2004 U1 - 306.0973 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Arts, Puerto Rican KW - United States KW - Puerto Ricans KW - Social life and customs KW - Ethnic identity KW - Intellectual life KW - Popular culture KW - Puerto Rico KW - Relations KW - Electronic books N1 - ALA COVID Relief Fund; Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I Founding Spectacles -- 1 Weighing In Theory -- 2 1898 -- 3 Feeling Pretty -- Part II Boricuas in the Middle -- 4 From Puerto Rico with -- 5 The Writing on the Wall -- 6 Flagging Madonna -- Part III Boricua Anatomies -- 7 Rosario's Tongue -- 8 Barbie's Hair -- 9 Jennifer's Butt -- 10 Ricky's Hips -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author N2 - Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrn-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ fashion designer Jennifer Lopez, from the faux historical chronicle Seva to the creation of Puerto Rican Barbie, from novelist Rosario Ferr(r) to performer Holly Woodlawn, and from painter provocateur Andy Warhol to the seemingly overnight success story of Ricky Martin. Negrn-Muntaner traces some of the many possible itineraries of exchange between American and Puerto Rican cultures, including the commodification of Puerto Rican cultural practices such as voguing, graffiti, and the Latinization of pop music. Drawing from literature, film, painting, and popular culture, and including both the normative and the odd, the canonized authors and the misfits, the island and its diaspora, Boricua Pop is a fascinating blend of low life and high culture: a highly original, challenging, and lucid new work by one of our most talented cultural critics UR - https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865685 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=865685 ER -