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

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