The tradition of cultural magazines and intellectual engagement in latin america

Abstract

The magazines are artistic manifestations that reveal both its editorial content as in its design its relationship with history, sociology, music, theatre, dance, the life stories of characters, among other areas of fine art and humanism. Its readers are a public that has a specific interest in information and intends to form an opinion in relation to the topics. Our purpose is investigating in the tradition of these publications, analyses their origins and the impulse that had of the current modernist in the century XX. We also address particular cases of journals Sur of Argentina, Casa de las Américas of Cuba and Vuelta of Mexico. In this type of media is intended to provide better information, more detailed, deeper and equipped with a better script based on research that provides a different social reality reading. This form of journalism is the way to publicize and disseminate the cultural products of a society through the mass media. We believe that the studies of magazines will gradually having greater importance depending on their orientation towards a perspective of analysis in the socio-cultural field. They express the deep need to mark a trend.