Popular Cultural Memory

Towards a Cultural Sociology of Popular Music

The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television

THE CULTURAL MEMORY OF GERMAN VICTIMHOOD IN POST-1990 POPULARGERMAN LITERATURE AND TELEVISIONby ANJA PAULINE EBERTAugust 2010Advisor: Dr. Anne RotheMajor: Modern LanguagesDegree: Doctor of Philosophy My dissertation analyzes the representation of Germans as victims of the Third Reich andthe Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no long...

Cultural memory

Humans have a form of externalised memory. They are able to transmit information across generations in the form of learned cultural traditions and preserve this knowledge in artefacts. How this capability evolved from the simpler traditions of other animals is an active area of research.

Cultural Hybridization in a 1930s Taiwanese Popular Song

In their article "Cultural Hybridization in a 1930s Taiwanese Popular Song" Mei-Wen Lee and Timothy P. Urban present a comparison of the three different sets of lyrics used for the melody of the 1930s Taiwanese popular song, "Moonlight Sorrow": Taiwanese lyrics used by Yu-Xian Deng and Tian-Wang Chou in their 1933 arrangement, Japanese lyrics by Kurihara Hakuya from the late 1930s, and Mandarin...

Cultural consumption in the fine and popular arts realms

In this paper we review recent sociological research dealing with the consumption of culture produced in the fine and popular arts realms. We note that most of the initial theoretical developments in the sociological study of culture consumption were first developed to explain audience segmentation in the fine arts realm under what we refer as the “cultural capital” paradigm developed by Pierre...