Tuned to the nation's mood: Popular music as a mnemonic cultural object

Media, Culture and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 971-987

  Neiger, Motti ^a   Meyers, Oren ^b   Zandberg, Eyal ^a  

^a NETANYA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

collective memory; cultural memory; Holocaust commemoration; popular culture; popular music; radio

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053481616     PISSN: 01634437     EISSN: 14603675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163443711415741     Document Type: Article

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