The Cambridge History of Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Imagine an authoritative survey, rich in detail, largely free of postmodernist jargon. Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts in the 19th and 20th Centuries. This is another collection of separately authored chapters appearing originally in the Cambridge History of Latin America , here in paperback, apparently with classroom use in mind.
Popular culture does get a little attention.
Most of the contributions are about literature, not surprising given the fact that all but one of the contributors is a professor of literature. The exception is a professor of music and fine arts. In all this, there is little about cultural history as it has come to be understood in the last decade. Do not get me wrong. I am exceptionally partial to literature, architecture, cinema, music, and the graphic arts, which are all thoroughly covered here.