"Quem vive, quem morre, quem conta sua história?" Entre a história pública e a cultura pop : o caso Hamilton

Abstract

My project comes from a question: "how can a cultural product contribute to the disclosure of historical knowledge?" Based on this question, I research the impact of cultural projects in the field of history, in the shape of incentive to research or reading historical knowledge. I analyze, specifically, the Hamilton case, a musical theater play on Broadway, in New York. Hamilton became a phenomenon in the USA when telling the story of the American Revolution and it's forgotten Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, through the language of rap and hip-hop . Guided by the concepts of public history and pop culture, I research how the american national history is disclosed by the product analyzed and what's it's impact in the field of history (sic).