The cover of this issue features Santa Claus images from the travelling exhibition, ‘‘Merry X-Ray and A Happy New Lung: When Santa Sold Cigarettes’’, created by Alan Blum, Director of the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society. Taken from popular magazines published in the US, these images feature Santa, one of the most ubiquitous symbols of the Christmas season, sugg...

Culture, an intellectual capital of a city, is accumulated through the intellect and wisdom of the government, citizens, businesses and other organizations. Cities regardless of their size are seeking their own distinguishing features and positions. By combining culture and creativity to improve international visibility, cities can develop new potentials, create job opportunities and boost econ...

This paper is about the reconstruction of some of the production’s global processes in the cultural industry of music in its local dimensions, through a report of a family story of musicians and their band from a small village in Central-West Mexico. To understand the characteristics and properties of our goal, we use the anthroponomic perspective proposed by Bertaux as a conceptual alternative...