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245 10 a| Playful protesth| [electronic resource] :b| the political work of joy in Latinx media /c| Kristie Soares.;

246 30 a| Political work of joy in Latinx media;

260 a| Urbana :b| University of Illinois Press,c| [2023];

300 a| xi, 275 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

490 0 a| Feminist media studies;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and index.;

505 0 a| Dancing in My Parents' Living Room and Other Stories about Joy -- Gozando: Gendered Discourses of Pleasure in Early Salsa -- Precise Joy: The Gendered Performance of Affect in the Young Lords Party -- Choteo and the Family Sitcom: Poking Fun at Cuban Masculinities in ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.? -- Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz's Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival -- Dale: Queer Racialized Excess in Pitbull's Miami -- Politicized Silliness in a Time of Crisis: Notes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge norms of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Kristie Soares focuses on the diasporic media of Puerto Rico and Cuba to examine how music, public activist demonstrations, social media, sitcoms, and other areas of culture resist the dominant stories told about Latinx joy. As she shows, Latinx creators compose versions of joy central to social and political struggle and at odds with colonialist and imperialist narratives that equate joy with political docility and a lack of intelligence. Soares builds her analysis around chapters that delve into gozando in salsa music, precise joy among the New Young Lords Party, choteo in the comedy ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?, azúcar in the life and death of Celia Cruz, dale as Pitbull's signature affect, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's use of silliness to take seriously political violence"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Playful protest the political work of joy in Latinx media / Kristie Soares.

Author/creator	Soares, Kristie
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Description	xi, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Hispanic Americans and mass media. Hispanic Americans--Politics and government. Mass media and culture--United States. Joy--Political aspects.

Portion of title	Political work of joy in Latinx media
Series	Feminist media studies
Contents	Dancing in My Parents' Living Room and Other Stories about Joy -- Gozando: Gendered Discourses of Pleasure in Early Salsa -- Precise Joy: The Gendered Performance of Affect in the Young Lords Party -- Choteo and the Family Sitcom: Poking Fun at Cuban Masculinities in ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.? -- Dancing with Death: Celia Cruz's Azúcar and Queer of Color Survival -- Dale: Queer Racialized Excess in Pitbull's Miami -- Politicized Silliness in a Time of Crisis: Notes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Abstract	"Joy is a politicized form of pleasure that goes beyond gratification to challenge norms of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Kristie Soares focuses on the diasporic media of Puerto Rico and Cuba to examine how music, public activist demonstrations, social media, sitcoms, and other areas of culture resist the dominant stories told about Latinx joy. As she shows, Latinx creators compose versions of joy central to social and political struggle and at odds with colonialist and imperialist narratives that equate joy with political docility and a lack of intelligence. Soares builds her analysis around chapters that delve into gozando in salsa music, precise joy among the New Young Lords Party, choteo in the comedy ¿Qué Pasa U.S.A.?, azúcar in the life and death of Celia Cruz, dale as Pitbull's signature affect, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's use of silliness to take seriously political violence"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-259) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2022059900
ISBN	9780252045295 (cloth)
ISBN	9780252087424 (paperback)
ISBN	(ebook)

Playful protest the political work of joy in Latinx media / Kristie Soares.

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