Rather than signaling the death knell for historical inquiry, electronic mass media make collective memory a crucial constituent of individual and group identity in the modern world. Ture emerging over the past two centuries have helped make a crisis of historical memory the constitutive problem of our time. My intention is to show how forms of popular culvii In the first section of this book I present discussions of history and popular culture. New technologies do lend themselves to new forms of exploitation and oppression, but they also have possible uses for fundamentally new forms of resistance and revolution. Our time has more than its share of barbarism, but that barbarism is more the product of very old patterns of social organization than it is the product of new communications technology. People act in the arenas open to them there is nothing intrinsically better or worse about the generation and circulation of ideas through electronic mass media than through the printed word. But neither is this a jeremiad against popular culture and the individuals who create and receive it. I believe that the ever expanding influence, reach, and scope of the mass media has worked insidiously to legitimate exploitative social hierarchies, to colonize the body as a site of capital accumulation, and to inculcate within us the idea that consumer desire is the logical center of human existence. This is not an uncritical celebration of massmediated imagery. Rather, I wish to explore the ways in which collective memory and popular culture are peculiarly linked-how the infinitely renewable present of electronic mass media creates a crisis for collective memory, and how collective memory decisively frames the production and reception of commercial culture. It does not survey or analyze the aesthetics of popular culture itself, nor does it chronicle direct references to "historical" issues within popular culture texts. This is a book about collective memory and popular culture in the United States since 1945. History and the Future Chapter 11 Buscando America (Looking for America): Collective Memory in an Age of Amnesia History, Myth, and Counter-Memory: Narrative and Desire in Popular NovelsĬhapter 10 Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and CounterNarrative in Black New Orleans The New York Intellectuals: Samuel Fuller and Edgar Ulmer No Way Out: Dialogue and Negotiation in Reel America Popular Music Chapter 5 Against the Wind: Dialogic Aspects of Rock and Roll Chapter 6 Cruising Around the Historical Bloc: Postmodernism and Popular Music in East Lost Angeles Popular Television Chapter 3 The Meaning of Memory: Family, Class, and Ethnicity in Early Network TelevisionĬhapter 4 Why Remember Mama? The Changing Face of a Women's Narrative The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer.Ĭulture and History Chapter 1 Popular Culture: This Ain't No Sideshow Chapter 2 Precious and Communicable: History in an Age of Popular Culture Memory-Social aspects- United States-History-20th century. United States-Popular culture-History-20th century. Time passages : collective memory and American popular culture / George Lipsitz. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South.Suite 290, Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Seventh printing 2001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lipsitz, George. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis LondonĬopyright © 1990 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. ¥assa0es Collective Memory and American Popular Culture
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