Cultural politics in a Latin American frame / Anny Brooksbank Jones -- Rhythm and poetry : politics, aesthetics and popular music in Brazil since 1960 / David Treece -- Political fables and aesthetic renewal / Sergio Chejfec -- Art/communication/technicity at century's end / Jesús Martín Barbero -- Surviving (on) the soup of signs : postmodernism, politics and culture in Cuba / Catherine Davies -- Violence in memory : translation, dramatization and performance of the past in Chile / Catherine Boyle -- Politics in the city : the cultural dimension / Beatriz Sarlo -- The ins and outs of Mapuche culture in Chile / Sara McFall and Roberto Morales -- Globalization and culture : five approaches to a single text / Martín Hopehayn -- Confronting the catastrophes of modernity : the cultural sociology of José Joaquín Brunner / Hernán Vidal -- Afterword : Postmodernism, politics and culture in Latin America / Ronaldo Munck