Encounters with Popular Pasts

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Encounters with Popular Pasts is written by Mike Robinson and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319131834 (ISBN 10) and 9783319131832 (ISBN 13).

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?.