ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the scholarship on Latinx fandom. Although Latinx audiences certainly have been frustrated by media representations, there are numerous forms of media that Latina/o audiences consume regularly and find immensely pleasurable. Latinx audiences' frustration is experienced in consumption of both mainstream and Spanish-language media because representations in both these media markets often reproduce longstanding stereotypes that homogenize Latinidad. Music created, performed, and consumed by Latinx communities is central to the Latinx experience in the US. Latinx communities engage in music to connect to their home country or ethnic heritage. A review of the scholarship on Latinx music and telenovela fans demonstrates that there is much to glean from scholarship on Latinx fandom, especially in terms of hybridity, the borderlands, and transnationalism. Telenovela viewing is a family affair not only for nuclear and extended Latinx families in the US, but also across national borders. America.
