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Cultura de masas: Reforma y nacionalismo en Chile, 1910–1931

2005; Duke University Press; Volume: 85; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1215/00182168-85-1-182

1527-1900

Patrick Barr-Melej,

Historical Studies in Latin America

Book Review| February 01 2005 Cultura de masas: Reforma y nacionalismo en Chile, 1910–1931 Cultura de masas: Reforma y nacionalismo en Chile, 1910–1931. By Rinke, Stefan. Santiago: Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos, 2002. Photographs. Illustrations. Bibliography. 174 pp. Paper. Patrick Barr-Melej Patrick Barr-Melej Iowa State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (1): 182–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-85-1-182 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Patrick Barr-Melej; Cultura de masas: Reforma y nacionalismo en Chile, 1910–1931. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 February 2005; 85 (1): 182–183. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-85-1-182 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search As Stefan Rinke astutely notes, during the opening decades of the twentieth century there emerged and developed in Chile a “cultura de masas," as many thousands of santiaguinos increasingly left behind “lo tradicional"—materially, culturally, and ideologically—to engage in (if somewhat tenuously) modernity’s varied and compelling milieu. His book, which focuses on the period from the centennial celebrations of 1910 through the 1927-31 dictatorship of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, is a satisfying and tightly woven synthesis that addresses culture, politics, and nationalism in a modernizing society gripped by the so-called social question.Rinke’s intent is to describe the period’s new urban reality as it was produced, reproduced, and reflected in such areas as architecture, music, fiction and nonfiction literature, gender relations, party politics, and government policy making. To wit, the book is divided into three parts—distinct but interrelated—that expose the period’s complexity and hybridism: the emergence of mass culture, the... You do not currently have access to this content.