Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Title

Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers

Editors

Rebecca Ann Lind

Abstract

This essay surveys an arc of representation associated with the shifting projections of Latino male musical artists from the early 1990s to the end of the decade. This arc begins with the straightforward and seemingly uncomplicated, hence stereotypical, constructions of Gerardo and Kid Frost—two artists who were popular in the early 1990s—and ends with an analysis of the rather more complicated persona of Ricky Martin, whose public image has often challenged presumptions of Latino male identity and sexuality.

Pages

235-242

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Publisher

Longman

Publication Date

2004

Disciplines

Race and Ethnicity | Sociology

Comments

This Postprint manuscript has been accepted for publication. The Version of Record is available from:

Delgado, F., & Calafell, B. M. (2004). From Rico Suave to Livin’ La Vida Loca: A Decade of Evolution for Latino Pop Stars. In R. A. Lind (Ed.), Race/Gender/Media: Considering diversity, across audiences, content, and producers (pp. 235–242). Boston, MA: Pearson.

ISBN

978-0205344192

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