The Cold War and Popular Culture: How can we use popular culture as a historical source to learn about the Cold War?

Title
The Cold War and Popular Culture: How can we use popular culture as a historical source to learn about the Cold War?
Publication Date
2016
Author(s)
Ihde, Erin
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8738-5270
Email: eihde2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:eihde2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
History Teacher's Association of Victoria
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:19783
Abstract
Over recent years popular culture has become widely appreciated as an important source for learning about the past. Whereas the study of history was for many years associated with dusty documents and dry old records, as fields of inquiry expanded from the 1960s onwards, so did the types of sources consulted broaden to include fields such as oral history and other forms of everyday life once considered not important enough to warrant serious study. The Cold War, beginning as it did in the late 1940s, coincided with the explosion of popular culture in the Western world as film, television, music and novels (to name just a few areas) catered to an increasingly affluent society. including the ever-increasing numbers of young people as a result of the post-World War II baby boom.
Link
Citation
Agora, 51(2), p. 37-43
ISSN
1837-9958
0044-6726
Start page
37
End page
43

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