Search results for "Popular Culture"
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Cinema, popular entertainment, literature and television
2012
In an excellent methodological essay, Rick Altman (1996) has argued that the notion that cinema has a stable identity across time is, at best, an illusion. Specifically, its identity has become diffuse at moments when it has entered into circuits of transformative exchange and competition with other forms of leisure activity. Altman focused on the age of the nickelodeon (exhibition at fairgrounds or amusement parks, early cinema theaters) and on the sound revolution (producing forms such as “radio with images” and filmed theater), proposing a “crisis model” of historiography in which what we call cinema includes heterogeneous, unstable scenarios that have emerged at crisis points in its his…
From Hinde to Hillen: postcards and the issue of authenticity in popular culture
2014
Volume dirigé par Sylvie Mikowski; International audience
“A Modern Slave Song:” Reggae Music and the Memory of Slavery
2019
International audience; From early ska tunes to modern-day dancehall sounds, Jamaican popular music has been a privileged site for the re/creation and transmission of a communal memory of slavery, within Jamaican society itself but also in the broader context of the African and Afro-Caribbean diasporas. The lyrics of reggae songs constitute a vast textual repertoire where a predominantly oral discourse on slavery is produced and circulated, mostly outside institutional circles. In such texts, slavery serves as a memorial matrix which fosters a sense of identity, community and resistance for Afro-Caribbean people around the world. This chapter examines a corpus of 250 song lyrics dedicated t…
Art and Commitment in the British Music Hall in its Golden Age
2013
International audience; My own speciality is the British music-hall, especially its later period, after 1900. I like to see this form of popular entertainment as fitting into a series of stories: at least three storiesFirstly, as an industry, and as a repertoire of songs, it fits into the history of popular music, in the period before the domination of recorded or broadcast music, when live performance and sheet music were practically the only modes of distribution. It is a period when many aspects of today’s popular music were not present – there were no live recordings of songs to contrast with their studio versions, no post-production, and where singing along in a group, rather than othe…
Cultural and Creative Industries Concept – A Historical Perspective
2014
Abstract Innovation and creativity are broadly used terms and Creative Economy concept is present in European and other countries policy documents, including EU policy, UNDP and other international organization strategies. In Latvia the use of the Creative Industries term increases, however the understanding of its implications often causes confusion, both among policy makers and the broader public. The aim of this article is to establish a better understanding of the principles of Cultural and Creative Industries and the concept of a Creative Economy using historical reasoning from relevant literature. Formal use of the term Creative Industries is quite recent (1994), marking the digital e…
Ariosto Redivivus: A Year of Centenary Celebrations and Critical Reassessment
2018
La prima edizione dell’Orlando furioso di Ludovico Ariosto (stampata nel 1516 a Ferrara da Giovanni Mazocco del Bondeno) ha compiuto 500 anni nel 2016. L’articolo ripercorre gli eventi che hanno caratterizzato le celebrazioni, individuando tendenze critiche e suggerendo sviluppi di ricerca. First published in 1516 by Giovanni Mazocco del Bondeno in Ferrara, Ludovico Ariosto’s masterpiece, the Orlando furioso, celebrated its quincentenary in 2016. The article reports on the various events that took place on the occasion, highlighting their scholarly relevance and suggesting new critical developments.
Popular Religion in the Periphery. Church Attendance in 17th Century Eastern Finland
2015
Abstract On the fringes of post-Reformation Europe, church and state authorities faced problems in enforcing church attendance. In the Swedish kingdom, religious uniformity was seen as vital for the success of the state after the Lutheran confession had been established, and absences from church were punishable by law. The seventeenth century saw significant tightening of legislation relating to church absences and other breaches of the Sabbath, and severe punishments were introduced. Despite considerable deterrents, it was sometimes difficult to control local inhabitants: absence cases were regularly brought before the local courts in Eastern Finland, where authorities were hampered by a c…
Subalternidad y prácticas feministas en América Latina: 47ª Sesión de la Comisión sobre Población y Desarrollo
2016
En esta investigación, el uso de los conceptos y reflexiones derivados de los estudios subalternos y decoloniales son aplicados al feminismo latinoamericano actual con el objetivo de estudiar la relación intrínseca que se produce entre clase, género y etnia. Este artículo se propone reflexionar a través de la genealogía del concepto de subalternidad propuesto por Antonio Gramsci y trabajado más tarde por Gayatri Spivak desde una perspectiva postcolonial y feminista. De esta manera, se realiza un seguimiento del papel de las mujeres en la teorización sobre las culturas populares llegando a los grupos de estudios subalternos de Latinoamérica y los planteamientos de Mary Nash. Para este anális…
Protocol, politics and popular culture: the independence jubilee in Gabon
2013
National days are powerful moments of commemoration that aim at renewing the citizens' bonds to the nation and the state. In order to be successful, public rituals need to draw large audiences, and their ceremonial design therefore has to be adapted to suit the masses, employing elements of popular culture and everyday forms of nationhood. Despite drawing its significance from the declaration of independence in 1960, however, Gabon's independence jubilee was less concerned with history and commemoration than with celebrating the state and the nation in the present. The ceremonial design of Gabon's jubilee featured intensive preparations, official ceremonies, popular festivities and symbolic…
Per Luigi. Annotazioni su "Folklore e profitto"
2022
Folklore e profitto. Tecniche di distruzione di una cultura (1973) di Luigi Lombardi Satriani costituisce una preziosa testimonianza di una fase trasformativa della società e della cultura italiane le cui tracce restano ben visibili. Il saggio cerca di sottolineare come questo lavoro di Lombardi Satriani costituisca una lucida e disincantata analisi di come la cultura folklorica, gramscianamente intesa come cultura delle classi subalterne, venisse, all’indomani del ’68 e per tutti gli anni Settanta, accolta, manipolata, smembrata secondo le sensibilità, le esigenze e gli interessi tanto dai giovani figli delle classi egemoni quanto dalla borghesia intellettuale politicamente impegnata e, es…