Word: mainstreams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Albuquerque's Bueno Food Products has built a new plant to produce its microwavable frozen green chili stew and blue tortillas for sale nationwide. Campbell Soup has bought Puerto Rico-based Casera foods, and is considering introducing its line of Caribbean-style juices, beans, sauces and soups into mainstream markets. Goya Foods has chosen five easily marketed products for non-Hispanic consumers: nectars, Cream of Coconut, Sazon, Adobo and beans...
...Mainstream American museums have only just begun to accept that in contemporary American culture, there are many houses. Even today this recognition is not shared by everyone. But the situation has certainly improved since 1969, when New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted its hideously condescending exhibition "Harlem on My Mind." Back then the Met confidently declared that spending $5,544,000 on Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, his dark-skinned assistant of presumed Moorish ancestry, would improve the self-esteem of the museum's black and Hispanic public...
Whether Hispanic sounds will ever compete on the charts with pop is questionable. "I don't see Latin music ever being mainstream," says Frank Flores, general manager of the Latino station WJIT in New York City. "Our influence will seep into the mainstream, but it's still going to be Spanish music." Some Latin musicians are worried that every step toward Anglo society is a step away from their culture's roots; one player's progressivism is another's sellout. "The Latin market is our bread and butter, and we can't ignore them," says Raul Alfonso of Hansel...
...Mainstream Americans exposed to similar hybrids of German, Chinese or Hindi might be mystified. But even Anglos who speak little or no Spanish are somewhat familiar with Spanglish. Living among them, for one thing, are 19 million Hispanics. In addition, more American high school and university students sign up for Spanish than for any other foreign language...
...Latin Wave Hits the Mainstream...