scholarly journals Oral history, collective memory and socio-political criticism: A study of popular culture in Cameroon

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Donatus Fai Tangem
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Political Criticism

scholarly journals Pamięć w kulturze teraźniejszości

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Tarkowska
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Media ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Social Time ◽  
Media And Communication

One of the most substantial interdisciplinary topics in the study of contemporary culture is change in social time, which is expressed in the compression of time (and space) and changing relationships between the past, present, and future. Research and analysis situate the present in an exceptional position in contemporary culture, providing us with the term ‘culture of the present.’ At the same time, however, we are dealing with a phenomenon labeled the ‘explosion of memory’—an astounding multidirectional and multifaceted rise in interest in the past. It is therefore worthwhile to investigate the structures and mechanisms of collective memory, as well as how the past is defined in contemporary culture, from the perspective of time as a social and cultural phenomenon. Questions should be asked regarding the mechanisms that unite the dominance of the present in culture with a rising interest in the past. The perspective of social time reveals that the ‘culture of the present,’ the current dominating forms of memory intensification, and the heightened awareness of the past, are influenced by the same or similar factors. These include new media and communication technologies, as well as consumption and popular culture, which change the structure of time, condense the time horizon, alter the manner in which the past is experienced, and modify the mechanisms of collective memory.

Remembering a problematic past: TV mystics, perestroika and the 1990s in post-Soviet media and memory

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Huxtable
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Web Forum

This article examines memories of the TV psychic Anatoly Kashpirovsky, whose TV ‘séances’ were broadcast on Soviet state television in the late-1980s. Based on the results of interviews from Russians and Ukrainians conducted in 2013–2014, a television serial based on the rise of TV mystics in the late-1980s and a web forum devoted to discussion of the serial, this article uses memories of Kashpirovsky in both vernacular and public contexts as a means of understanding the place of perestroika and the 1990s in the post-Soviet historical consciousness. In particular, the article focuses on the continued contestation over the meaning of perestroika and the 1990s in Russian and Ukrainian collective memory and the different interpretative strategies used to explain the past. The article seeks to examine the different forms of memory work taking place in different memory spaces, from the popular, vernacular memories voiced in interviews, to public memories expressed within popular culture.

scholarly journals Memória de poetas populares na internet: Uso da plataforma wordpress na preservação e acesso a artefatos poéticos da literatura de cordel brasileira │ Memory of popular poets on the internet: Use of the wordpress platform in the preservation and ...

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Elizabeth Baltar Carneiro de Albuquerque ◽  
Bernardina Maria Juvenal Freire de Oliveira ◽  
Sale Mario Gaudencio
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Cultura Popular ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Literatura De Cordel

RESUMO Este artigo apresenta como temática central a memória de poetas populares na internet, tendo como objetivo basilar preservar a memória da poesia popular, particularmente a memória da vida e obra de seus autores, por meio da adoção de recursos tecnológicos, neste caso do uso do WordPress com vistas a viabilizar a preservação e o acesso a artefatos poéticos da literatura de cordel. Metodologicamente, a investigação ocorreu em duas fases: a fase 1, de caráter estritamente documental e bibliográfico; e a fase 2, de natureza aplicada. Conclui-se que o uso de ferramentas online pode viabilizar a preservação e o acesso aos artefatos da memória coletiva da poesia popular e, de algum modo, fazer ecoar as vozes silenciadas por processos coercitivos ou não, considerando que o cordel possui uma linguagem crítica do social. Nesse sentido, espera-se contribuir para induzir, em outros contextos, novas experiências de preservação da memória da cultura popular, que é também cultura nacional.Palavras-chave: Memória Coletiva; Blogosfera; Cultura Popular; Poesia Popular; Artefato Poético.ABSTRACT The subject of this article is the memory of popular poets on the internet, with the aim of preserving the memory of popular poetry, particularly their life stories and their work, through the adoption of technological resources. In this case we focus on the use of WordPress in facilitating the preservation of and access to poetic artifacts of cordel literature. The investigation occurred in two phases: Phase 1, strictly documentary and bibliographic; and Phase 2, of an applied nature. It is concluded that the use of online tools can facilitate preservation and access to the artifacts of collective memory, in some way echoing the voices silenced - by coercive processes or not - considering that cordel literature is built on a social critique.  In this sense, this work should contribute to induce in other contexts new memory preservation experiences of popular culture, which is also national culture.Keywords: Collective Memory; Blogosphere; Popular culture; Popular Poetry; Poetic Artifact.

scholarly journals EXUMAÇÃO DA HISTÓRIA: A TRADIÇÃO ORAL EM PESQUISAS COM RELATOS DE EXPERIÊNCIA QUILOMBOLA

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Filogênio De Paula Junior ◽  
Cesar Romero Amaral Vieira ◽  
Márcia Cristina Américo ◽  
Viviane Marinho Luiz
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
School Education ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Education School ◽  
Political Project

ResumoEste artigo apresenta um estudo sobre tradição, transmissão e educação, a partir de duas pesquisas desenvolvidas no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba sobre uma mesma comunidade quilombola do Vale do Ribeira (SP). A partir de uma reflexão fundamentada na história oral, buscamos compreender o projeto político-educacional e comunitário do Quilombo Ivaporunduva, tentando entender os mecanismos de inserção da educação escolarizada, levando em conta a preservação dos saberes existentes, oriundos de tradições seculares que identificam as pessoas com seu grupo social. Palavras chave: Quilombo Ivaporunduva. Oralidade. Memória coletiva. Educação. Escola.  EXHUMATION OF HISTORY: THE ORAL TRADITION IN RESEARCHES WITH THE QUILOMBOLA EXPERIENCE NARRATIVES Abstract This article aims to present a reflection about tradition, transmission and education, from  two research developed at Post- Graduate Program in Education of the Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba,about of quilombola community of Vale do Ribeira, SP. Starting from a reflection based on oral history, this article aims to understand the educational  and communitarian political project of Quilombo Ivaporunduva. The challenge was attempt to understand the insertion mechanisms of school education along with this traditional community, considering tha preservation of existing knowledge, derived from secular traditions that identify people by their social group. Keywords: Quilombo Ivaporunduva. Orality, Collective Memory, Education, School

scholarly journals Building on Sand: Nation, Borders, Myth and History

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Goodall
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Public Intellectuals ◽  
Personal Safety ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
National History ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Social Authority

Building on Sand brought together scholars with high profile roles as public intellectuals whose work is engaged in three very different geographic areas: Australia, Israel/Palestine and India/Pakistan. Each of these, as the conjoined names of two suggest, are sites of conflict over the nature of the civil and social authority which holds power and the peoples who claim to belong there. History has been a central theme in the rhetoric of these political conflicts, in which a unitary and authoritative history for a ‘nation’ and a ‘state’ has been built on the shifting sands of always-emerging historical evidence and its interpretations. In each of these three regions, a history which celebrated national formation and unity was challenged by ‘new’ historians in the 1970s [or 1980s or 1990s]. They used a similar set of methodologies like oral history, popular culture and the built environment: the toolkit of researching ‘history from below’ for a generation of social and cultural historians. Such new histories have been now been challenged themselves by a reassertion of the validity of a celebratory ‘national’ history based on unproblematic, ‘factual’ evidence. These recent conflicts between the ‘new’ historians and the (even newer) re-asserters of a ‘national’ history have been bruising encounters, with high stakes in terms of individual reputations, public emotions and the real, personal safety in some cases of the participants and, more importantly, of vulnerable oppositional communities.

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