Montreal Modern: Retro Culture and the Modern Past in Montreal
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Montreal Modern : Retro Culture and the Modern Past in Montreal. / Handberg, Kristian.
I: Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, Bind 7, Nr. 1, 2015, s. 67-89.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Montreal Modern
T2 - Retro Culture and the Modern Past in Montreal
AU - Handberg, Kristian
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Through analyses of the retro scenes in Montreal, Canada, the article discussesretro culture’s role as cultural memory. It is shown how Montreal’s cultural identityis formed by memories of modern culture such as the Red-light and Sin Cityreputation of the illicit nightlife of the 1940s and 1950s, and the space agemodernism of the 1960s following the Expo 67 and Quebec’s Quiet Revolution.This is reflected in the city’s thriving retro culture through the study of two groupsof retro shops. In circulating specific memories and objects in a specific context,retro is an important negotiation of the past in the present. Especially, it is statedthat the retro culture displays “local accents” and a new focus on the specificitiesof modern culture giving a revaluation to a previously overlooked identity such asthe Quebecité.
AB - Through analyses of the retro scenes in Montreal, Canada, the article discussesretro culture’s role as cultural memory. It is shown how Montreal’s cultural identityis formed by memories of modern culture such as the Red-light and Sin Cityreputation of the illicit nightlife of the 1940s and 1950s, and the space agemodernism of the 1960s following the Expo 67 and Quebec’s Quiet Revolution.This is reflected in the city’s thriving retro culture through the study of two groupsof retro shops. In circulating specific memories and objects in a specific context,retro is an important negotiation of the past in the present. Especially, it is statedthat the retro culture displays “local accents” and a new focus on the specificitiesof modern culture giving a revaluation to a previously overlooked identity such asthe Quebecité.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Retro
KW - cultural memory
KW - material culture
KW - second-hand culture
KW - Canadian culture
KW - kitsch
KW - subculture
KW - popular culture
U2 - 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1571
DO - 10.3384/cu.2000.1525.1571
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
SP - 67
EP - 89
JO - Culture Unbound
JF - Culture Unbound
SN - 2000-1525
IS - 1
ER -
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