Review: History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s by M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-207
Author(s):  
John Troutman
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-44
Author(s):  
Dolly Kikon ◽  
Duncan McDuie-Ra

Dimapur has a limited public history, rarely features in popular culture, and has failed to capture the information of scholars. This chapter addresses the question ‘why Dimapur’ and offers six answers that serve as the book’s argument. First, Dimapur is the largest city in a tribal majority state. Second, Dimapur gives us the opportunity to frame frontier urbanism as a research agenda in India/South Asia. Third, more than just a city, Dimapur is a spatial experiment, a zone between the hills and plains, between tribal and non-tribal space. Fourth, Dimapur is a city governed under extraordinary laws with a substantial military presence and two camps of surrendered militants on its outskirts. Fifth, Dimapur has been both a city of conflict and a city of refuge. Finally, Dimapur allows the opportunity to begin an account of the Northeast, and Nagaland in particular, with urban modernity.


Author(s):  
M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska

Using examples from popular culture, this chapter shows that by the 1970s, Americans were far more interested in the past than in the present or future. While many popular and scholarly critics have dismissed this as simple nostalgia or escapism symptomatic of the turbulent decade, the book will argue that in fact what happened was a larger-scale shift in not only how Americans thought about the past, but also how they placed themselves within it, a shift that manifested itself across many iterations of popular and public history during the decade. Chapter ends with an overview of remainder of book and case studies within.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Antonio Helonis Borges Brandão

Este artigo pretende compreender a literatura de cordel no seu processo de construção histórica, a partir de arquivo que dispõe de um dos maiores acervos do gênero no país: o da Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa. Apropriada nos seus variados usos, como parte da chamada cultura popular, pretendemos entender o processo de passagem do que foi antes denominado como literatura popular em versos, nas publicações e coleções da FCRB, até se constituir na atual literatura de cordel, tendo em vista a sua disponibilidade para um amplo espectro de público e com os mais diversos interesses. Ao aplicarmos uma abordagem da história pública, pretendemos pensar a relação produção, circulação e consumo deste objeto cultural na história, sua construção como objeto de pesquisa pelo historiador, sua difusão institucional como cânone “popular” e o seu consumo produtivo para uma ampla variedade de públicos.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Cultura popular; História pública; Literatura de cordel.   ABSTRACT This article intends to understand the cordel literature in its historical construction process, from the file that has one of the largest collections of its kind in the country: the Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa. Suitable in their varied uses, as part of the popular culture, we want to understand the process of passage than it was before named as popular literature in verse, in publications and collections of FCRB, to be in the current cordel literature, in view of their availability for a wide spectrum of public and with different interests. To apply an approach of public history, we think the relative production, circulation and consumption of this cultural object in history, its construction as the object of research by historian, its institutional diffusion as Canon "popular" and its productive consumption for a wide variety of audiences.   KEYWORDS: Popular culture; Public history; Cordel literature.   RESUMEN Este artículo tiene como objetivo comprender la literatura de cordel en su proceso de construcción histórica, desde el archivo que tiene una de las colecciones más grandes en el género de país: la Fundación Casa de Rui Barbosa. Apropiada en sus diferentes usos, como parte de la llamada cultura popular, queremos entender el proceso de pasar de lo que era anteriormente conocida como literatura popular en verso, en las publicaciones y colecciones de FCRB, para constituir la literatura cadena actual, con el fin de su disponibilidad a un espectro más amplio público y con los intereses más diversos. Mediante la aplicación de un enfoque de la historia pública, queremos pensar en la producción relación, circulación y consumo de este bien cultural de la historia, su construcción como sujeto de la investigación por el historiador, la difusión institucional como canon "popular" y su uso productivo para una amplia variedad de pública.   PALABRAS CLAVE: la cultura popular; historia pública; literatura de cordel.


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