Cultural Periodicals of Latin America
| Duration | 17.6.2013 - 31.12.2021 |
| Coordination | Dr. Ricarda Musser musser@iai.spk-berlin.de |
| Funding |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
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1. Co-applicant
- Peter Altekrüger
altekrüger@iai.spk-berlin.de - Dr. Ricarda Musser
musser@iai.spk-berlin.de
2. Project Group
Scholars
IAI staff
- Nadja Ronnisch
- Dagmar Bimberg
- Doris Beck
- Andreas Levin
- Ania Müller
- Stefan Schmidt
- Hans-Jürgen Ahl
- Götz Hinderlich
- Olga Andreesen
- Ariane Herms
former IAI staff
- Jeannette Fischer
2013-2015
3. Short description
Point of departure
The acquisition of cultural periodicals will give clearer contours to and further expand the Ibero-American Institute’s special collections focusing on the popular culture of Latin America and the Caribbean. Over the past 15 years, the institute has used its own funds to acquire extensive holdings of the popular literature of individual countries. Examples include a collection of Argentine theater and literary periodicals that currently encompasses around 6,500 issues, and the more than 8,000 booklets of Brazilian literatura de cordel, which has its origins in the folk literature of the northeastern region of Brazil. Furthermore, using its own financial resources and third-party funding, the institute has extensively indexed a variety of holdings, such as the Robert Lehmann-Nitsche collection (including the Biblioteca Criolla, a library of Argentine popular literature) and José Guadalupe Posada’s Mexican collection, consisting of more than 600 issues and prints. These collections, which are unique in Germany, originated primarily in the period between 1880 and 1930.
The planned acquisition of cultural periodicals fits in with the context of these collections. The reason is that, due to their diverse topics and modes of representation, the publications form an ideal link between high and popular culture. A precise definition of cultural periodicals is hard to find. In the relevant secondary literature the genre is not clearly distinguished from other periodical formats. In terms of content, cultural periodicals focus on a great variety of topics. This diversity points to a broad concept of culture which in addition to the disciplines in the humanities that are oriented toward cultural studies also explicitly includes the natural sciences. This interdisciplinary approach is perhaps the most important feature of the cultural periodicals published between 1860 and 1930. Their diverse range of topics was covered in political, literary, sociological, satirical and technical articles, as well as in pieces on music theory and practice. A conscious effort was made to write texts in layman’s terms so that they would appeal to a broad academic and non-academic audience. The contributions were also highly diverse in terms of form. Primary and secondary literature was published alongside interviews, reviews, news and cartoons. Furthermore, most of the cultural periodicals featured numerous illustrations, photographs and graphics. They were also a popular medium for advertisements, including classified and personal ads.
Objectives
Due to growing demand from researchers, the IAI plans to acquire around 30,000 individual issues of Latin American cultural periodicals from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries. As regards the acquisition of cultural periodicals within the scope of the project, the institute selected countries from which it already held individual titles, most often in incomplete sets. A second criterion was that issues of these periodicals had to be currently offered for sale, either in digital form or on paper. The selected countries—Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Peru and Puerto Rico—reflect concrete demand and also form a balanced geographical cross-section of the IAI’s collection area. As permitted by law, the institute will digitize the periodicals using the Goobi workflow system and make them available through the relevant library reference tools.
Task Schedule
The institute has been acquiring, indexing and digitizing the cultural periodicals since mid-2013. The IAI library team, working together with a scanner operator hired for the project, will complete the project tasks by the end of December 2021 and make the materials available locally and nationally for research.
Expected Results
Results
In the project, the journals were complemented and digitized as far as this was possible on acquisition trips and through antiquarian portals and offers. In addition, further journal titles, both from the countries that were part of the project and from other countries, were made available digitally. These additions were made either in response to specific requests from researchers or for conservation reasons. Currently, more than 250 different titles are already available on the IAI's digital collections platform. As soon as the meta- and structural data collection has been completed, more titles will be made available. Within the digital collections of the Ibero-American Institute, the Latin American cultural magazines record by far the most accesses from Germany and abroad each year.
The project was publicized at conferences of the specialist communities in Germany. A special role was played by the exhibition shown in Spanish in the IAI reading room on the occasion of the XXII Conference of the German Association of Hispanic Studies, which was made possible by a complementary project supported by the BMK: https://www.flickr.com/photos/iaiberlin/albums/72157716268078327/with/50422219568/.
A German-language version of the exhibition was on display during the 13th Conference of the German Association of Portuguese Studies in Augsburg.
In addition, numerous presentations on the project itself or on individual cultural journals were given at national and international conferences. Particular mention should be made of the thematic sections organized at the XXI Conference of the German Association of Hispanic Studies in Munich and the 12th Conference of the German Association of Portuguese Studies in Mainz. The presentations and sections have already resulted in numerous publications in German, Spanish, Portuguese and English, the majority of which are also available in electronic format.
In addition to the IAI's platform, the project's results are stored online via the specialist portals "Europeana", the "Portal für Bibliotheken, Archive und Museen (BAM)" and the "Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek" as well as "SPK-Digital".
4. Products
Lectures
Musser, R.: Del buscar, del encontrar y del preservar: experiencias de un proyecto de adquisición y digitaización de revistas culturales latinoamericanas (2013-2021). Mesa 6: Diseño, visualidad y materialidad de las revistas II. Temas de archivo.
IV Jornadas internacionales de estudios sobre revistas latinoamericanas, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, 17.-19.11.2021 (virtual).
Musser, R.: Chácaras e quintais: Serielles Erzählen für und über die Provinz in Brasilien. Sektion: Provinz in Serie. Diskurse der Regionalität in seriellen Erzählungen seit der Moderne. XXVII.
Romanistentag, Universität Augsburg, 04.-07.10.2021 (virtual).
Musser, R.: Debates sobre a literatura e a história literária na Revista popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859-1862). Secção 9: Modelagens do passado literário dentro e fora da ficção no século XIX.
14. Deutscher Lusitanistentag, Universität Leipzig, 15.-19.09.2021 (virtual).
Musser, R.: Popularization of Technology and Engineering in Chilean Illustrated Magazines around 1900: The Example of Wireless Telegraphy. Panel 13: Revistas ayer y hoy: modernism, género y accesso.
SALALM LXVI, New York University, New York Public Library, Columbia University, 15.-22.07.2021 (virtual).
Musser, R.: A Senhorita, a moda e a emancipação. Mesa 3: Redes y revistas.
I Congreso internacional: proyectos estéticos políticos y redes intelectuales femeninas de entresiglos en América Latina. Red internacional de Estudios latinoamericanos del Siglo XIX. PUC-P, 22.-25.06.2021 (virtual).
Musser, R.: O Instituto Ibero-americano e as suas coleções brasileiras.
II Congresso ABRE – Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa, Paris, 18.-21.08.2019 (Einladung durch die Sektionsleitung, Finanzierung IAI).
Musser, R.: Revistas culturais no Instituto Ibero-Americano: projeto de adquisição, digitalização e difusão.
Tagung Revistas em revista: desafios e balanças, Rio de Janeiro, 12.-14.08.2019 (Einladung Casa de Rui Barbosa, Finanzierung BKM).
Musser, R.: El Modernismo paraguayo entre periodismo y literatura.
Hispanistentag. Section Prensa y literatura en el mundo hispanohablante: siglos XVIII al XXI". Berlin, 27.-31.03.2019.
Musser, R.: O Instituto Ibero-americano e os seus projetos de digitalização.
Workshop Imprensa multilingue – Brasil plural. Curitiba, 05.-06.04.2019. (Einladung und Teilfinanzierung: Projekt SAMRT MINDS Print, Teilfinanzierung: Programmpauschale Mobile Objekte).
Musser, R.: The Role of Users in Popularizing New Technological Developments through Brazil’s Illustrated Magazines (1889-1930): The Case of the Car.
Workshop: The Role of Users in Global Technological History. Universität Bern, Bern, 14.- 15.06.2018. (Einladung und Finanzierung: Universität Bern, Schweizerischer Nationalfond)
Musser, R.: O Projeto de digitalização de revistas culturais no Instituto Ibero-Americano de Berlim.
Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janeiro, 26.03.2018. (Finanzierung: DFG FID, Vortrag im Rahmen der Erwerbungsreise nach Brasilien)
Müller, Ch.: Entre ciência e belas-artes: O Museu portuguense e A Época.
12. Deutscher Lusitanistentag. Universität Mainz, Mainz, 13.-16.09.2017. (Finanzierung: DFG Fachinformationsdienst Lateinamerika, Karibik und Latino Studies)
Musser, R:“Não ha actualmente theatro brazileiro”: Artes cénicas, música e as respetivas ligações internacionais na revista Kósmos.
12. Deutscher Lusitanistentag. Universität Mainz, Mainz, 13.-16.09.2017. (Finanzierung: DFG Fachinformationsdienst Lateinamerika, Karibik und Latino Studies)
Musser, R.: Latin American Cultural Magazines – Second Season.
LXII Annual Conference of the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 20.-24.05.2017. (Finanzierung: DFG Exzellenzcluster Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung, Basisprojekt Mobile Objekte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Musser, R.: The Popularization of Knowledge on Industry and Engineering in Cultural and Illustrated Magazines: Chile, 1900-1930.
Workshop Science, Technology and Industrialization: Interactions Between Europe and Latin America after the Independence Movements (1840–1940). Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, 10.-11.05.2017.
Musser, R.: La Crónica y sus páginas femeninas. Sección: Cosmopolitismo desde los márgenes: revistas para mujeres y páginas para mujeres en revistas culturales latinoamericanas (1880-1930).
XXI. Deutscher Hispanistentag. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 29.03.-02.04.2017. (Finanzierung: IAI)
Müller, Ch.: „Los intereses del bello sexo“: Revistas para mujeres colombianas del fin del siglo XIX. XXI.
XXI. Deutscher Hispanistentag. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 29.03.-02.04.2017. (Finanzierung: IAI)
Müller, Christoph (20.07.2016):La cultura popular en las revistas culturales colombianas (1915-1950)
XLI Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, Friedich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (http://www.iili2016-jena.de) Förderung: DFG Exzellenzcluster Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung.
Musser, Ricarda (28.04.2016): “Brazilian-French Cultural Contact in Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859-1862)”
Popular Culture – Serial Culture: Nineteenth-Century Serial Fictions in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s, Universität Siegen (https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/popserialculture) Förderung: DFG, Universität Siegen.
Musser, Ricarda (13.05.2016): "Latin American Cultural Magazines (1860-1930): Acquisition and Digitization in the Ibero-American Institute Berlin"
SALALM Conference LXI “Nuestro norte es el sur”: Mapping Resistance and Resilience in Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian studies”, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (http://salalm.org/Conf/salalm-events/2016-archive) Förderung:DFG Exzellenzcluster Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung.
Musser, Ricarda (23.07.2016): Europäisch-brasilianischer Kulturkontakt im Serienformat: übersetzte Romane und Erzählungen in brasilianischen Kulturzeitschriften des 19. Jahrhunderts.
21st World Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, Universität Wien (https://icla2016.univie.ac.at) Förderung: DFG Projekt Kulturzeitschriften Lateinamerikas.
Musser, Ricarda (03.10.2016): “Historia(s) en movimiento: La Primera Guerra Mundial, Alemania y los Aliados en el espejo de la literatura popular impresa en México y España”
VIII Congreso Internacional de Lyra Minima: Las Culturas populares de Europa desde la literatura, la historia y la antropología: lod géneros breves de la tradición oral y su difusión impresa, Universidad de Valladolid (http://www.literaturaspopulares.org/tmp/wp-content/uploads/LMinima-VIII.pdf)Förderung: Fundación Joaquín Díaz Ureña, Universidad de Valladolid.
Musser, Ricarda (14.05.2014): ”Cultural Magazines of Latin America. An Acquisition and Digitalization Project of the Ibero-American Institute/Berlin”
“SALALM Conference LIX”, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City. (http://salalm.org/Conf/) Förderung: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut.
Conferences
12. Deutscher Lusitanistentag, Johanne-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 13.-16.09.2017
XXI. Deutscher Hispanistentag: Orte hispanischer Kultur in einer globalisierten Welt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 29.03-02.04.2017, Förderung: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
Publications
Musser, R.: El modernismo en Paraguay entre el periodismo y la literatura: la revista Crónica (1913-1915) y sus vínculos internacionales.
In: Ertler, K.D. / Fernández, H. (Eds.): Periodismo y literatura en el mundo hispanohablante: continuidades – rupturas – transferencias. Heidelberg: Winter, 2020: 99-107.
Musser, R.: The Latin American Cultural Magazines Project: acquisition and digitization at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut.
In: Dominguez, D (Ed.): Engaging Latin American Studies: connecting collections to teaching and learning. New Orleans: Tulane University, 2020: 142-149.
Müller, Ch.: Entre ciência e belas-artes: O Museu portuguense e A Época.
In: Müller, Ch. / Musser, R. (Eds.): Revistas culturais no mundo lusófono durante o longo século XIX. Conectividade, transferência e informação. Lisboa: Colibri, 2019: 39-56.
Musser, R.: „Não ha actualmente theatro brazileiro“: artes cénicas a as suas ligações internacionais na revista Kósmos (1904-1909).
In: Müller, Ch. / Musser, R. (Eds.): Revistas culturais no mundo lusófono durante o longo século XIX. Conectividade, transferência e informação. Lisboa: Colibri, 2019: 97-110.
Musser, R.: Brazilian-French Cultural Contact in a Serial Format: The Revista Popular (Rio de Janeiro, 1859-1862).
In: In: Stein, D. / Wiele, L. (Eds.): Popular Cultur – Serial Culture: Nineteenth-Century Serial Fictions in Transnational Perspective, 1830s-1860s. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2019: 81-93.
Fakin, M / Musser, R. / Steinke, B. (Eds.): Internconexiones, transferencias e información: revistas culturales latinoamericanas.
Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2019. (entstanden im Rahmen eines komplementären Projektes mit Förderung durch BKM)
Fakin, M. / Musser, R. / Steinke, B. (Eds.): Vernetzung, Transfer und Information: Lateinamerikanische Kulturzeitschriften.
Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2019. (entstanden im Rahmen eines komplementären Projektes mit Förderung durch BKM)
Fakin, M / Musser, R. / Steinke, B. (Eds.): Interconexões, transferências e informação: revistas culturais latino-americanas.
Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2019. (entstanden im Rahmen eines komplementären Projektes mit Förderung durch BKM)
Müller, Ch. / Musser, R. (Eds.): Revistas culturais no mundo lusófono durante o longo século XIX. Conectividade, transferência e informação.
Lisboa: Colibri, 2019.
Müller, Ch.: Revistas culturales colombianas: movilizar conocimiento y objetos de la cultura popular.
In: Ch. Müller / R. Musser (Eds.): De la pluma al internet. Literaturas populares latinoamericanas en movimiento (siglos XIX-XXI), Medellin: Editorial EAFIT / Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2018: 217-229.
Musser, Ricarda (2016): “Revistas culturales de América Latina: Un proyecto de adquisición y digitalización del Instituto Ibero-Americano, Berlín”.
In: Delgadillo, Roberto C. (Hrsg.): Who Are We Really?: Latin American Family, Local and Micro-Regional Histories, and Their Impact on Understanding Ourselves. New Orleans: Tulane University, 113-122.
Musser, Ricarda (2015): German-Brazilian Cultural Exchange in the Time of the Dictatorship: The Cultural Magazine« Intercâmbio »
In : Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer u. Christopher Larkosh (Hrsg.): KulturConfusão : on German-Brazilian Interculturalities. Berlin : De Gruyter, 119-136.
Exhibitions
entstanden im Rahmen eines komplementären Projektes mit Förderung durch BKM