This book examines media, performance, and the public space as sites of intangible cultural heritage – a heritage that moves beyond physical museums and monuments to encompass film and media, performing arts, oral traditions, social practices, rituals, artifacts, and cultural spaces.
Focusing on the current methodological challenges and new frameworks that surround the study of intangible cultural heritage in the public space, this volume explores the ways in which intangible cultural heritage is formed, represented, appropriated, and changed. The authors propose a broad understanding of cultural heritage emerging from the public sphere, encompassing museums, oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, artifacts, media and cultural spaces as the inclusive, collective cultural expressions of everyday culture.
This unique and interdisciplinary volume will interest scholars and students of cultural studies, cultural heritage, media and film studies, performance studies, history, and sociology.
Introduction - Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance and the Public Space Part I: Experiencing Intangible Cultural Heritage, Festivals and Feasts 1. Continuity and Change in the Welsh Eisteddfod: the interchangeability of tradition and innovation in intangible cultural heritage 2. Popular Religious Feasts: Algarve’s Hyperdulia as living heritage Part II: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Tangible 3. British Regimental Museums as a Place of Intangible Cultural Heritage 4. The Queer Archive and Worthless Treasure: Excavating Community Pasts in the “Tommie and Betty Collection” Part III - Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, Change and Variation 5. Performing Arts as Culture Heritage: Jingju (Peking Opera)’s Innovations from a Historical Perspective 6. Appropriating Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Missing Empowerment? 7. Weaving a Community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed® Part IV: Intangible Cultural Heritage, Film and Radio 8. Feature Film as Intangible Cultural Heritage: the safeguarding and transmission of public history and cultural memory in Grbavica: The Land of my Dreams (2006) 9. A Cup of Hot Chocolate and They All Lived Happily Ever After: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Christmas Format Films on TV 10. The Listener-Curated Canon: Rockism, Symbolic Annihilation and the WXPN 2020 All-Time Greatest Songs Countdown 11. Cinema Heritage as Archive of Feelings: Reflecting on Intangibility in Two Greek Cinema Heritage projects Index
Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Salford, UK. Leslie Grace McMurtry is Senior Lecturer in Radio Studies at the University of Salford, UK.
