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Introduction: Mexican Puppets as Popular and Pedagogical Diversions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2015

William H. Beezley
William H. Beezley*
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University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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The Americas , Volume 67 , Issue 3 , January 2011 , pp. 307 - 314
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 2011

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References

1. Blumenthal, Eileen, Puppetry: A World History (New York: Henry N. Abrams, 2005), p. 14.Google Scholar

2. Varey, J.E., Historia de los titeres en España (desde sus origines hasta mediados del siglo XVIII) (Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1957), pp. 8–9, 99, 107;Google Scholar Titeres, marionetas y otras diversiones populares de 1758 a 1859 (Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Madrileños, 1959), p. 8, passim.

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8. The diversity of popular entertainments across the nation can be appreciated by consulting the municipal licensing records, usually identified as “diversiones públicas,” in local archives. For various solitary and group puppeteers, see Cabrera, Sonia Iglesias and Prisant, Guillermo Murray, Piel de papel, manos de palo: Historia de los títeres en México (México: Espasa-calpc Mexicana, 1995).Google Scholar

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10. This composition was widely-known in the United States from 1955 to 1962 as the theme to the television program “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.” My thanks to Jennifer Jenkins, from the Department of English at the University of Arizona for this information.

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12. The song was released on her obscure album, Pa’ Morirse de Amor (EMI, 1997). Sandra Muñoz provided this information.

13. Kristin Ruggiero from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee provided this information.

14. See the Manicomio de muñecos offiicial Website, http://www.manicomiodcmunecos.com/ and http://www.matacandelas.com/temporada.htm for the porno puppet group. My thanks to Paula Barreiro at La Universidad de Medellín for suggestions about these contemporary groups. Advertisements appear regularly in El Colombiano, the local newspaper. See Oct. 21, 1985 as an example.

15. See the chapter “Puppet Policy: Marionettes and Muñecos as Teaching Tools in Chile, 1970–1973” in the forthcoming dissertation, Korowin, Erika M., “Crafting a New Nation: Cultural Politics on the Chilean Road to Socialism, 1970–1973” (University of Arizona).Google Scholar