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By Mike Robinson,Helaine Silverman

ISBN-10: 3319131826

ISBN-13: 9783319131825

ISBN-10: 3319351931

ISBN-13: 9783319351933

This quantity is predicated at the popularity that historical past is renowned and pop culture is now quite simply remodeled into background whose meanings and myths reshape social existence and political and financial realities in addition to re-make “tradition.” The papers during this quantity examine: What does well known history appear like? To whom does it converse? Is it lively in dissolving type and cultural barriers or simply in reproducing new ones? How do societies deal with a historical past that's fluid, quick and that straddles extremes of great clash and hedonistic frivolity? When/under what situations is the production and expression of recent cultural varieties – pop culture – in a position to being remodeled into heritage?.

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