East Meets West

This study provides a glimpse into the cultural history of this popular medium for the period 1944-2016. From the “golden age” of communist era television during which TV was hailed as a main cultural force for education and entertainment and simultaneously taunted as a tool of propaganda, censorship and political control, we will trace the unprecedented “boom” in commercial TV channels at the offset of the transition, with its often questionable quality, leading to the emergence of several serious contenders on the broadcasting scene, both in terms of their financial value and in terms of power over public opinion.

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Spanish Folklore in the Southwest: The Pioneer Studies of Aurelio M. Espinosa

The Americas A Quarterly Review of Latin American History ◽

10.2307/980905 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 219-237

Author(s):

J. Manuel Espinosa

Keyword(s):

New Mexico ◽

Cultural History ◽

Mexico City ◽

Golden Age ◽

Field Work ◽

Spanish America ◽

First Century ◽

Old Spanish ◽

Cultural Life ◽

History Of

The centuries-old Spanish folk heritage of our Southwest, and its many faceted and enduring influence on the cultural life of the region, has been written about from various rims of observation. This article describes the pioneer studies of Aurelio M. Espinosa on Spanish folklore in the Southwest, with special emphasis on northern New Mexico. Although he made important contributions to the study of Spanish folklore of southern Colorado, Arizona, and California, and to that of Spain, Mexico, and other parts of Spanish America as well, he devoted most of his research and field work to the upper half of New Mexico which is the richest field of Spanish folklore in the Southwest.In viewing the cultural history of New Mexico, Espinosa reminded his readers that its first century as a Spanish colony, the 17th, was the second great century of Spain's Golden Age of arts and letters. With the vigor of Spain's sense of mission in those centuries, her Golden Age radiated to all parts of Spanish America via Mexico City, Lima, and the other principal colonial capitals. At the same time, from the bookshelf and the store of knowledge of the humble missionary, and the folklore of the Spanish settlers, passed down from generation to generation, the spirit of the Golden Age was reflected on the most remote settled frontiers.

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American Friends of the Middle East: The CIA, US Citizens, and the Secret Battle for American Public Opinion in the Arab–Israeli Conflict, 1947–1967

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875815001255 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 93-116 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

HUGH WILFORD

Keyword(s):

Public Opinion ◽

Middle East ◽

Cultural History ◽

Private Group ◽

Recent Scholarship ◽

History Of ◽

Characteristic Values ◽

The Creation ◽

Arab Israeli Conflict

In 1951, the CIA secretly funded the creation of an ostensibly private group of US citizens called the American Friends of the Middle East (AFME). Pro-Arab and anti-Zionist in orientation, AFME was repeatedly attacked by pro-Israel groups before seeing its links to the CIA exposed by investigative journalists in 1967. Drawing on recent scholarship about “state–private networks” and the cultural history of US–Middle East relations, this article examines the origins of AFME, its characteristic values and relations with the CIA, and the reasons for the decline of its influence vis-à-vis the emergent “Israel lobby.”

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Plato's myth of the statesman, the ambiguities of the Golden Age and of history

The Journal of Hellenic Studies ◽

10.2307/630197 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 98 ◽

pp. 132-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Golden Age ◽

Fourth Century ◽

Animal Origin ◽

Historical Reality ◽

History Of

In the treatise de Abstinentia that the neoplatonist Porphyry devoted to justifying abstention from foods of animal origin, there is a long quotation from Life in Greece (βίος τῆς Έλλάδος) by the Peripatetic, Dicaearchus (end of the fourth century B.C.), who was a direct disciple of Aristotle. This book is known to represent a sort of cultural history of Greek humanity from the very earliest times.In its essentials, this text tells us that the Golden Age, or age of Cronos, referred to by the poets, principally by Hesiod, in his Works and Days (from which Dicaearchus quotes verses 116–19: ‘And they had all good things, the grain-bearing earth, ζείδωρος ἂρονρα, itself produced an abundant and generous harvest, and they lived off their fields in peace and joy, amidst countless boons…’), that this marvellous epoch was perhaps a historical reality

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Pauline Wengeroff’s Memoirs of a Grandmother: The Evolution of One Household Item and Its Metaphoric Value Through Generations

Tirosh Jewish Slavic & Oriental Studies ◽

10.31168/2658-3380.2020.20.2.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 127-147

Author(s):

Anna Waisman ◽

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Cultural History ◽

Golden Age ◽

Jewish People ◽

Jewish Tradition ◽

Jewish Women ◽

Household Item ◽

Mode Of Life ◽

History Of

Memoirs of a Grandmother: Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century byPauline Wengeroff (published in 1908–1910 in Berlin) is a unique example of a Jewish autobiography written by a woman that depicts the Jewish traditional, preassimilation mode of life as the Golden Age. Reminiscing on the bygone times, the author also muses over her own, rather complicated relationship with the traditional and the modern. For her, the conflict between the two signifies the battle of sexes that was lost by women. A knife, described in some contexts as a household object, in others assumes a metaphorical value symbolizing the idyllic Jewish past and the dramatic changes undergone by the Jewish people, by Jewish women and by the memoirist herself. A woman with a knife, featured in the first volume as a symbol and a defender of the Jewish tradition, later morphs into a tragic figure, both a sacrifice and a sacrificer.

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A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age

10.5040/9781350183049 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

World Wide ◽

Classical Antiquity ◽

Economic Context ◽

Political Ideologies ◽

Modern Age ◽

History Of ◽

Economic Developments ◽

Comprehensive History ◽

Cultural Force

A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today. Over this time, world-wide participation in sport has been shaped by economic developments, communication and transportation innovations, declining racism, diplomacy, political ideologies, feminization, democratization, as well as increasing professionalization and commercialization. Sport has now become both a global cultural force and one of the deepest ways in which individual nations express their myths, beliefs, values, traditions, and realities. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport and its ever-changing social, cultural, political, and economic context and impact. The themes covered in each volume are the purpose of sport; sporting time and sporting space; products, training, and technology; rules and order; conflict and accommodation; inclusion, exclusion, and segregation; minds, bodies, and identities; representation.

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John Heywood

10.1093/oso/9780198851516.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Greg Walker

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

Golden Age ◽

Cultural Changes ◽

Tudor England ◽

History Of ◽

John Heywood ◽

Comprehensive Study

John Heywood: Comedy and Survival in Tudor England offers the first comprehensive study of the long and varied career of the Tudor playwright, poet, musician, performer, humourist, and collector of epigrams, John Heywood (c.1497–1578). It roots his life and work in the context of the profound and often violent religious, political, and cultural changes of the Tudor century that variously provoked, enabled, and restricted the scope of his creativity, and makes the case for Heywood as both one of the sixteenth century’s most fascinating dramatic and literary figures and a revealing lens through which to view the cultural history of the period. It goes beyond the clichés of popular history, beyond Shakespeare and the purpose-built playhouses, beyond the canonical Henrician court poets and writers of the Elizabethan ‘Golden Age’, beyond even the experiences of the century’s chief ministers, intellectuals, and martyrs, to a theatrical and literary world less visible in the conventional sources. It opens a window on a culture in which the actions of monarchs, their councillors, and their victims were witnessed and reflected upon at one remove, but subjected to vigorous, witty, and often audacious criticism and comment.

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