Research Catalog

Title

Folk roots, new roots : folklore in American life / Jane S. Becker and Barbara Franco.

Author

Becker, Jane S.

Publication

Lexington, Mass. : Museum of Our National Heritage, c1988.

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Additional Authors

• Franco, Barbara
• Franco, Barbara, 1945-
• Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of Our National Heritage.

Description

xvii, 196 p. : ill.; 27 cm.

Subject

• Folklore > United States > Exhibitions
• Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Folklore > United States > History > Exhibitions
• Folklore > United States > Public opinion > Exhibitions
• Public opinion > United States > Exhibitions
• Folklore and nationalism > United States > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Our National Heritage and other U.S. locations, 1988-1990.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lenders to the exhibition -- Foreword and acknowledgements / Jane Becker and Barbara Franco -- New England prologue : Thoreau, antimodernism, and folk culture / Dillon Bustin -- Introduction / Alan Jabbour -- Revealing traditions : the politics of culture and community in America, 1888-1988 / Jane S. Becker -- Rough sincerities : William Wells Newell and the discovery of folklore in late-19th century America / Roger D. Abrahams -- Poor Lo and Dusky Ramona : scenes from an album of Indian America / Rayna Green -- Packaging the folk : tradition and amnesia in American advertising, 1880-1940 / Jackson Lears -- Modernism, Edith Halper, Holger Cahill, and the fine art meaning of American folk art / Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr. and Claudine Weatherford -- When we were good : the folk revival / Robert Cantwell -- Contributors.

ISBN

• 096211071X
• 0962110728 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^88050979^

OCLC

19297274

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library