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Encounters with popular pasts : cultural heritage and popular culture / Mike Robinson, Helaine Silverman, editors.

Other author/creatorRobinson, Mike, 1960- editor.
Other author/creatorSilverman, Helaine, editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Cham : Springer Verlag, [2015]
Copyright Notice ©2015
Descriptionix, 253 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Mass, modern, and mine: heritage and popular culture / Mike Robinson and Helaine Silverman -- When popular religion becomes elite heritage: tensions and transformation at the shrine of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina / Michael A. Di Giovine -- Experiencing intangible heritage on the byway: the Mississippi blues trail and the Virginia Crooked Road / Paul Hardin Kapp -- Material falsehoods: living a lie at this old fort / Robert Pahre -- Women, tourism, and the visual narrative of interwar tourism in the American Southwest / Joy Sperling -- Deploying heritage to solve today's dilemmas: the swedes of Rockford Illinois / Lynne M. Dearborn -- From co-op to conglomerate: quality courts, World War II, and the commodification of travel / John Woodrow Presley -- Branding Peru: cultural heritage and popular culture in the marketing strategy of PromPerú / Helaine Silverman -- Parodying heritage tourism / Richard W. Hallett -- Contemporizing Kensington: popular culture and the 'enchanted palace' exhibit / Julian Hartman, Caitlin Carson, Cele Otnes and Pauline Maclaren -- Collecting London 2012: exploring the unofficial legacy of the olympic games / Anna Woodham -- 'Deomcratizing' genealogy and family heritage practices: the view from Urbana Illinois / Noah Lenstra -- Uneasy heritage: remembering everyday life in post-socialist memorials and museums / Sara Jones -- Trees as reappropriated heritage in popular cultures of memorialization: the rhetoric of resilient (human) nature / Joy Sather-Wagstaff.
Abstract 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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015936296
ISBN9783319131825
ISBN3319131826
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