Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Title Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture PDF eBook
Author Liedeke Plate
Publisher Routledge
Pages 243
Release 2013-04-02
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1135090661

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This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and artistic practices perform the past in the present? What is their relationship to the archive? Does the past speak in the performed past (or do we speak to it)? To what purpose do objects "recall"? And for whom do they recollect? Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.

Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Title Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture PDF eBook
Author Laszlo Muntean
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 237
Release 2016-12-08
Genre Art
ISBN 1315472163

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Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture. The book’s underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand, memory is performed, mediated, and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand, inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own, which affects practices of memory, as well as forgetting. Chapters 1, 4, and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.

The Archive and the Repertoire

The Archive and the Repertoire
Title The Archive and the Repertoire PDF eBook
Author Diana Taylor
Publisher Duke University Press
Pages 350
Release 2003-09-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0822385317

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In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory—conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances—offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical processes of transnational contact. The Archive and the Repertoire invites a remapping of the Americas based on traditions of embodied practice. Examining various genres of performance including demonstrations by the children of the disappeared in Argentina, the Peruvian theatre group Yuyachkani, and televised astrological readings by Univision personality Walter Mercado, Taylor explores how the archive and the repertoire work together to make political claims, transmit traumatic memory, and forge a new sense of cultural identity. Through her consideration of performances such as Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s show Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit . . . , Taylor illuminates how scenarios of discovery and conquest haunt the Americas, trapping even those who attempt to dismantle them. Meditating on events like those of September 11, 2001 and media representations of them, she examines both the crucial role of performance in contemporary culture and her own role as witness to and participant in hemispheric dramas. The Archive and the Repertoire is a compelling demonstration of the many ways that the study of performance enables a deeper understanding of the past and present, of ourselves and others.

Cultural Memory and Popular Dance

Cultural Memory and Popular Dance
Title Cultural Memory and Popular Dance PDF eBook
Author Clare Parfitt
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 313
Release 2021-12-02
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 3030710831

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This book focuses on the myriad ways that people collectively remember or forget shared pasts through popular dance. In dance classes, nightclubs, family celebrations, tourist performances, on television, film, music video and the internet, cultural memories are shared and transformed by dancing bodies adapting yesterday’s steps to today’s concerns. The book gathers emerging and seasoned scholarly voices from a wide range of geographical and disciplinary perspectives to discuss cultural remembering and forgetting in diverse popular dance contexts. The contributors ask: how are Afro-diasporic memories invoked in popular dance classes? How are popular dance genealogies manipulated and reclaimed? What is at stake for the nation in the nationalizing of folk and popular dances? And how does mediated dancing transmit memory as feelings or affects? The book reveals popular dance to be vital to cultural processes of remembering and forgetting, allowing participants to pivot between alternative pasts, presents and futures.

Pastiche

Pastiche
Title Pastiche PDF eBook
Author Ingeborg Hoesterey
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 160
Release 2001-04-22
Genre Art
ISBN 9780253214454

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95 s / £15.50 ContentsA Discourse History of Pasticcio and PastichePastiche in the Visual ArtsCinematic PasticheLiterary PastichePastiche Culture beyond High and Low: Advertising Narratives, MTV, Performance StylesCoda

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage
Title Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage PDF eBook
Author Veysel Apaydin i
Publisher UCL Press
Pages 335
Release 2020-02-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1787354849

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Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.

Performing the Past

Performing the Past
Title Performing the Past PDF eBook
Author Karin Tilmans
Publisher Amsterdam University Press
Pages 369
Release 2010
Genre History
ISBN 9089642056

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Karin Tilmans is an historian, and academic coordinator of the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, Florence. Frank van Vree is an historian and professor of journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Jay M. Winter is the Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale. --