Resounding pasts : essays in literature, popular music and cultural memory / edited by Drago Momcilovic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Momcilovic, Drago, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory in literature.

Collective memory in music.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.

Summary:

The field of memory studies has long been preoccupied with the manner in which events from the past are commemorated, forgotten, re-fashioned, or worked through on both the individual and collective level. Yet in an age when various modes of artistic and cultural commemoration have begun to overlap with and respond to one another, the dynamics of cultural remembering and forgetting become bound up in an increasingly elaborate network of representations that operate both within and outside temporal, cultural, and national borders.As publicly circulating texts that straddle the line between cultural artifact and artistic object, both musical and literary works, both individually and often in conjunction with one another, help shape cultural memories and individual experiences of those events. Troping their cultural milieux through specific aesthetic and social forms, genres, and modes of dissemination, music and literature become part of a growing global panoply of raw materials upon which we might begin to pose questions regarding the way we remember, the consequences of sharing and passing on those memories, and the aesthetic and cultural pressures attendant upon the circulation and interpretation of texts that (re-)sound the past.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on a Collection

Part I: Listening to the Past

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Part II: 'Reading' Sites of Memory

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Part III: Comparative Engagements

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-5275-5148-2

OCLC:

1159406516