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Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance and the Public Space book cover

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Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks Media, Performance and the Public Space

Edited By Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou, Leslie Grace McMurtry Copyright 2025
228 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

228 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance, and the Public Space

Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou and Leslie Grace McMurtry 

 

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

Lisa Lewis

2.     Popular Religious Feasts: Algarve’s Hyperdulia as living heritage

Paulo M. Barroso 

 

Part II: The Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Tangible

3.     British Regimental Museums and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Krysten E. Blackstone and Brian N. Hall 

4.     The Queer Archive and Worthless Treasure: Excavating Community Pasts in the “Tommie and Betty Collection”

Ellie Turner-Kilburn

 

Part III - Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, Change and Variation

5.     Performing Arts as Culture Heritage: Jingju (Peking Opera)’s Innovations from a Historical Perspective

Xunnan Li

6.     Appropriating Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Missing Empowerment?

Maria Angelillo

7.     Weaving a Community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed®

Josie Steed, Karen Cross, and Bethany Wilson

 

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)

Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou 

9.     A Cup of Hot Chocolate and They All Lived Happily Ever After:  The Intangible Cultural Heritage of Christmas Format Films on TV

Leslie Grace McMurtry

10.  The Listener-Curated Canon: Rockism, Symbolic Annihilation, and the WXPN 2020 All-Time Greatest Songs Countdown

David Crider and Kim Fox

11.  Cinema Heritage as Archive of Feelings: Reflecting on Intangibility in Two Greek Cinema Heritage projects

Dimitris Papanikolaou and Afroditi Nikolaidou 

 

Index

Biography

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.

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