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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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- 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