Encounters With Popular Pasts

Author : Mike Robinson,Helaine Silverman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319131832

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Encounters with Popular Pasts by Mike Robinson,Helaine Silverman Pdf

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?.

Author : Kate Clark
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789203011

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Playing with the Past by Kate Clark Pdf

Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter, in the countryside and in collections and stories. It touches all of us. How do we decide what to preserve? How do we make the case for heritage when there are so many other priorities? Playing with the Past is the first ever action-learning book about heritage. Over eighty creative activities and games encompass the basics of heritage practice, from management and decisionmaking to community engagement and leadership. Although designed to ‘train the trainers’, the activities in the book are relevant to anyone involved in caring for heritage.

Author : Lauren Istvandity,Sarah Baker,Zelmarie Cantillon
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783089703

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Remembering Popular Musics Past by Lauren Istvandity,Sarah Baker,Zelmarie Cantillon Pdf

Remembering Popular Music’s Past capitalizes on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music’s material past and on scholarly explorations of the ways in which popular music, as heritage, is produced, legitimized and conferred cultural and historical significance. The chapters in this collection consider the spaces, practices and representations that constitute popular music heritage to elucidate how popular music’s past is lived in the present. Thus the focus is on the transformation of popular music into heritage, and the role of history and memory in this process. The cultural studies framework adopted in Remembering Popular Music’s Past encompasses unique approaches to popular music historiography, sociology, film analysis, and archival and museal work. Broadly, the collection deals with the precarious nature of popular music heritage, history and memory.

Author : Matthew Jones,Joan Ormrod
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786478071

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Time Travel in Popular Media by Matthew Jones,Joan Ormrod Pdf

In recent years numerous films, television series, comic books, graphic novels and video games have featured time travel narratives, with characters jumping backward, forward and laterally through time. No rules govern time travel in these stories. Some characters move by machine, some by magic, others by unexplained means. Sometime travelers can alter the timeline, while others are prevented from causing temporal aberrations. The fluid forms of imagined time travel have fascinated audiences and prompted debate since at least the 19th century. What is behind our fascination with time travel? What does it mean to be out of one's own era? How do different media tell these stories and what does this reveal about the media's relationship to time? This collection of new essays--the first to address time travel across a range of media--answers these questions by locating time travel narratives within their cultural, historical and philosophical contexts. Texts discussed include Doctor Who, The Terminator, The Georgian House, Save the Date, Back to the Future, Inception, Source Code and others.

Author : Mimi Thi Nguyen,Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822339226

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Alien Encounters by Mimi Thi Nguyen,Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu Pdf

DIVA collection of essays that examine the production and consumption of Asian American popular culture, from musical expression to television cooking shows./div

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027378095

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The Popular Science Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yvonne Friedman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9004117067

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Encounter Between Enemies by Yvonne Friedman Pdf

This fascinating study deals with one of the first points of direct and personal contact between Europeans and Muslims during the Crusades: the ransoming of captives. It traces the changes in European mentality and the laws of warfare.

Author : Jessica Jacobs
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781409488798

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Sex, Tourism and the Postcolonial Encounter by Jessica Jacobs Pdf

Illustrated by revealing interviews with women and men in the tourist resorts in the Sinai, Egypt, this book is ostensibly about western women who sleep with 'native' men while on holiday. Broadening the scope of issues involved, it examines the link between these holiday romances and a much wider romanticism of place and people – of the landscapes of paradise, deserts and the lure of the Bedouin sheikh – that are used to sell these destinations. It argues that the romantic stereotyping and deliberate positioning of 'Third World' resorts as places that somehow exist outside of the modernities the women come from is inextricably bound up in the relationships. Similarly, for the local man the tourist resort is perceived as a place other than his own cultural space and time and represents a modernity that is otherwise only found in the 'West'. The relationships that ensue can therefore only occur because the tourist resort acts as an intermediate space. In analyzing the interaction of these men and women within the context of modernity, the book provides insights into gender issues to do with globalization, travel and sexuality, as well as opening up the debate on sex tourism and showing this to be a lot more ambiguous and complicated than it might at first appear.

Author : Arnold Lewis
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 0252023056

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An Early Encounter with Tomorrow by Arnold Lewis Pdf

Chicago in the late nineteenth century was the wonder city of the Western world, its famous Loop the laboratory in which to study innovative commercial architecture. There, Old World assumptions were overthrown by New World realities, as the past was discounted, the present glorified, and the future eagerly anticipated.

Author : Caitlin Janzen,Donna Jeffery,Kristin Smith
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771120951

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Unravelling Encounters by Caitlin Janzen,Donna Jeffery,Kristin Smith Pdf

This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement, and racism inform and shape our practices, pedagogies, and understanding of encounters in diverse settings. The contributors draw largely on the work of Sara Ahmed’s Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality, each chapter taking up a particular encounter and unravelling the elements that created that meeting in its specific time and space. Sites of encounters included in this volume range from the classroom to social work practice and from literary to media interactions, both within Canada and internationally. Paramount to the discussions is a consideration of how relations of power and legacies of oppression shape the self and others, and draw boundaries between bodies within an encounter. From a social justice perspective, Unravelling Encounters exposes the political conditions that configure our meetings with one another and inquires into what it means to care, to respond, and to imagine oneself as an ethical subject.

Author : Michelle Wibbelsman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252092879

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Ritual Encounters by Michelle Wibbelsman Pdf

This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. Otavaleños are a unique group in that they maintain their traditional identity but also cultivate a cosmopolitanism through frequent international travel. Ritual Encountersexplores the moral, mythic, and modern crossroads at which Otavaleños stand, and how, at this junction, they come to define themselves as millennial people. Michelle Wibbelsman shows that Otavaleños are deeply engaged in transnational mobility and in the cultural transformations that have resulted from Otavalan participation in global markets, international consumer trends, and technological developments. Rituals have persisted among this ethnic community as important processes for symbolically capturing and critically assessing cultural changes in the face of modern influences. As religious expression, political commentary, transcendental communication, moral judgment, and transformative experience, Otavalan rituals constitute enduring practices that affirm ethnic identities, challenge dominant narratives, and take issue with power inequalities behind hegemony. Ritual Encounters thus offers an appreciation of the modern and mythic community as a single and emergent condition.

Author : Florence Babb
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804771566

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The Tourism Encounter by Florence Babb Pdf

This book considers the recent growth of tourism in transitional societies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Research in Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru reveals that tourism often takes up where social transformation leaves off and may even benefit from the formerly off-limits status of nations that have undergone periods of conflict or rebellion.

Author : Joshua Parker,Ralph J. Poole
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Austria
ISBN : 9783643908124

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Austria and America: 20th-Century Cross-Cultural Encounters by Joshua Parker,Ralph J. Poole Pdf

Through literature, film, diplomatic relations, and academic exchanges, this volume examines key historical points in Austrian-American relations of the past century, pondering the roots of how and why "austrianness" was adapted to American culture, and how America's cultural lens focused on the two countries' exchanges. From Freud's early reception, to FDR's policy toward Austrian refugees in the Pacific, and from film adaptations to film-writing, literature and Freudianism during the McCarthy era, it reviews encounters between Austria and the United States, between Austrians and Americans, between each's images of the other, and the lives of those caught in between. (Series: American Studies in Austria, Vol. 15) [Subject: Politics, American Studies, Austrian Studies, Sociology]

Author : J. T. Merydew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Love-letters
ISBN : HARVARD:32044086702941

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Love Letters of Famous Men and Women of the Past and Present Century by J. T. Merydew Pdf

Author : Stephen Arterburn
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780785231950

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The Encounter by Stephen Arterburn Pdf

The past often holds secrets that are too painful to be revealed, too deep to confess. A wealthy businessman travels to Fairbanks, Alaska, to learn why his mother abandoned him when he was a child, and in the process learns that not everything is as it appears to be. The Encounter, the unique new book from best-selling author and counselor Stephen Arterburn, is a moving parable involving Jonathan Rush, a wealthy and famous entrepreneur, who is tortured by bitterness toward his mother who abandoned him when he was four. He travels to Alaska to find her but instead meets an enigmatic old woman known only as Mercy. Mercy has the information he needs but is strangely reluctant to talk to him. Somehow Jonathan must find a way to persuade a frightened woman to unlock the secrets of his past. The book includes an invitation to the readers to verify the facts of their own stories, to accept the reality of their existence, especially the most painful ones, and to live in forgiveness. The end result is a healthy new way to look at life with an ability to share hope with others for the future. Healing is possible but requires truth, acceptance, and forgiveness, including of oneself.