Encounters with Popular Pasts - Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture

This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make "tradition." The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms - popular culture - capable of being transformed into heritage?.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Mass, Modern and Mine: Heritage and Popular Culture Mike Robinson and Helaine Silverman.- Chapter 2: When Popular Religion Becomes Elite Heritage: Tensions and Transformations at the Shrine of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina Michael A. Di Giovine.- Chapter 3: Experiencing Intangible Heritage on the Byway: The Mississippi Blues Trail and the Virginia Crooked Road Paul Hardin Kapp.- Chapter 4: Material Falsehoods: Living a Lie at This Old Fort Robert Pahre.- Chapter 5: Women, Tourism, and the Visual Narrative of Interwar Tourism in the American Southwest Joy Sperling.- Chapter 6: Deploying Heritage to Solve Today's Dilemmas: The Swedes of Rockford, Illinois Lynne M. Dearborn.- Chapter 7: From Co-op to Conglomerate: Quality Courts, World War II, and the Commodification of Travel John Presley.- Chapter 8: Branding Peru: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture in the Marketing Strategy of PromPerú Helaine Silverman.- Chapter 9: Parodying Heritage Tourism Richard W. Hallett.- Chapter 10: Contemporizing Kensington: Popular Culture and the "Enchanted Palace" Exhibit Caitlin Carson, Julian Hartman, Cele Otnes and Pauline Maclaran.- Chapter 11: Collecting London 2012: Exploring the Unofficial Legacy of the Olympic Games Anna Woodham.- Chapter 12: "Democratizing" and : The from Urbana, Illinois Noah Lenstra.- Chapter 13: Uneasy Heritage: Remembering Everyday Life in Post-Socialist Memorials and Museums Sara Jones.- Chapter 14: Trees as Re-appropriated Heritage in Popular Cultures of Memorialization: The Rhetoric of Resilient (Human)Nature  Joy Sather-Wagstaff.

About the author

Mike Robinson is an independent Java developer specializing in interactive Web applications.

Summary

This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities as well as re-make “tradition.” The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms – popular culture – capable of being transformed into heritage?.

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“These essays express the multiple meanings that are made through popular culture, and weigh carefully the way in which the popular tends to spin through webs of capital. … This collection … valuable to specialists, is also particularly useful for those looking for an introduction to this particular field, and likewise is well suited for adaptation in undergraduate courses. With its mix of the particular and the general, Encounters with Popular Pasts is a welcome addition to the ongoing conversation.” (Malgorzata J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, Museum Anthropology Review, Vol. 10 (2), 2016)

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"These essays express the multiple meanings that are made through popular culture, and weigh carefully the way in which the popular tends to spin through webs of capital. ... This collection ... valuable to specialists, is also particularly useful for those looking for an introduction to this particular field, and likewise is well suited for adaptation in undergraduate courses. With its mix of the particular and the general, Encounters with Popular Pasts is a welcome addition to the ongoing conversation." (Malgorzata J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, Museum Anthropology Review, Vol. 10 (2), 2016)

Product details

• Assisted by: Mik Robinson (Editor), Mike Robinson (Editor), Silverman (Editor), Silverman (Editor), Helaine Silverman (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9783319131825
• ISBN: 978-3-31-913182-5
• No. of pages: 253
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 242 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 508 g
• Illustrations: IX, 253 p. 47 illus., 46 illus. in color.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous