A viral scene from the Netflix series, Wednesday, shows Jenna Ortega’s titular daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams busting out in a creepy-kooky dance at a school event. Ortega, a Latina actor in her early twenties from the Coachella Valley in Southern California, first thanked 1980s-era UK post-punk singer and icon Siouxsie Sioux among others on social media for the “help” and inspiration for her wacky self-choreographed solo performance. In Hulu’s This Fool, 30-year-old Maggie, a Latina from South L.A., wears a red streak in her black hair and a Siouxsie Sioux graphic T-shirt that emphasizes the singer’s famous eye makeup. Maggie’s boyfriend, Julio, hates when people in the neighborhood assume he’s a Morrissey fan because he wears a “gentlemen’s haircut” that mimics the pompadour and fade popular with the ex-Smiths singer from Manchester and his many Latino fans. These recent pop culture moments demonstrate not only the ubiquity...
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June 2024
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June 01 2024
Review: A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad, by Richard T. Rodríguez Available to Purchase
Richard T. Rodríguez.
A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad
. Durham
: Duke University Press
, 2022
. 264 pages.
Melissa M. Hidalgo
California State University, Long Beach
Melissa M. Hidalgo teaches popular culture, film, and literature classes in the Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at California State University, Long Beach. She is a Fulbright Scholar and author of Mozlandia: Morrissey Fans in the Borderlands (Headpress, 2016).
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Journal of Popular Music Studies (2024) 36 (2): 124–126.
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Melissa M. Hidalgo; Review: A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad, by Richard T. Rodríguez. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 June 2024; 36 (2): 124–126. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2024.36.2.124
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