Encounters with Popular Pasts [recurso electrónico] : Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture

This volume is based on the recognition that heritage is popular and popular culture is now readily transformed into heritage, whose meanings and myths reshape social life and political and economic realities, as well as re-make "tradition". The papers in this volume consider: What does popular heritage look like? To whom does it speak? Is it active in dissolving class and cultural boundaries or just in reproducing new ones? How do societies manage a heritage that is fluid, immediate and that straddles extremes of serious conflict and hedonistic frivolity? When and under what circumstances is the creation and expression of new cultural forms - popular culture - capable of being transformed into heritage? Front Matter....Pages i-ix Mass, Modern, and Mine: Heritage and Popular Culture....Pages 1-30 When Popular Religion Becomes Elite Heritage: Tensions and Transformations at the Shrine of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina....Pages 31-47 Experiencing Intangible Heritage on the Byway: The Mississippi Blues Trail and the Virginia Crooked Road....Pages 49-59 Material Falsehoods: Living a Lie at This Old Fort....Pages 61-80 Women, Tourism, and the Visual Narrative of Interwar Tourism in the American Southwest....Pages 81-95 Deploying Heritage to Solve Today’s Dilemmas: The Swedes of Rockford Illinois....Pages 97-114 From Co-op to Conglomerate: Quality Courts, World War II, and the Commodification of Travel....Pages 115-129 Branding Peru: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture in the Marketing Strategy of PromPerú....Pages 131-148 Parodying Heritage Tourism....Pages 149-163 Contemporizing Kensington: Popular Culture and the “Enchanted Palace” Exhibit....Pages 165-183 Collecting London 2012: Exploring the Unofficial Legacy of the Olympic Games....Pages 185-201 “Democratizing” Genealogy and Family Heritage Practices: The View from Urbana, Illinois....Pages 203-218 Uneasy Heritage: Remembering Everyday Life in Post-Socialist Memorials and Museums....Pages 219-234 Trees as Reappropriated Heritage in Popular Cultures of Memorialization: The Rhetoric of Resilient (Human) Nature....Pages 235-250 Back Matter....Pages 251-253