“To remember is to live!”: terrace chants, memory and oral sources

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51880/ho.v24i2.1191

Keywords:

Football, Oral History, Oral tradition, Rituals, Performance

Abstract


This article aims to refl ect on the possibility of using football fans' chants as oral sources, seen as meaningful collective oralities in contemporary society. The terrace chants are treated as oral traditions and important elements of fan groups collective memory. Songs are alternative and varied forms of orality which can help in understanding traditions transmission as well as ways of accessing shared pasts of these groups. In addition, it is important to better comprehend the recording and archiving process of this type of material so that it can be thought as an oral source for historical research.

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Published

2021-09-30

How to Cite

Santos, J. M. C. M. (2021). “To remember is to live!”: terrace chants, memory and oral sources. História Oral, 24(2), 89–104. https://doi.org/10.51880/ho.v24i2.1191