Isle of Rum: Havana Club, Cultural Mediation, and the Fight for Cuban Authenticity - Brossura

Chvez, Christopher

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1978838832 ISBN 13: 9781978838833

Casa editrice: Rutgers Univ Pr, 2024

Riassunto

Focusing on Havana Club rum as a case study, Isle of Rum examines the ways in which western cultural producers, working in collaboration with the Cuban state, have assumed responsibility for representing Cuba to the outside world. Christopher Chávez focuses specifically on the role of advertising practitioners, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists, who stand to benefit economically by selling an image of Cuba to consumers who desperately crave authentic experiences that exist outside of the purview of the marketplace.

Rather than laying claim to authentic Cuban culture, Chávez explores which aspects of Cuban culture are deemed most compelling, and therefore, most profitable by corporate marketers. As a joint venture between the Cuban State and Pernod Ricard, a global spirits marketer based in Paris, Havana Club embodies the larger process of economic reform, which was meant to reintegrate Cuba into global markets during Cuba’s Special Period in a Time of Peace.

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Informazioni sull'autore

CHRISTOPHER CHÁVEZ is the Caroline S. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising and the Director of the Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies (CLLAS) in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He is the author of The Sound of Exclusion: NPR and the Latinx Public and Reinventing the Latino Television Viewer: Language Ideology and Practice.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Rutgers Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1978838832
• ISBN 13: 9781978838833
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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