ISBN:
087421999X
,
9780874219999
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Series Statement:
Ritual, festival, and celebration volume 3
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Eastman Attebery, Jennifer Pole Raising and Speech Making : Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration
DDC:
394.260978
Keywords:
Festivals
;
Holidays
;
Folklore
;
Swedish Americans Social life and customs
;
Festivals
;
Folklore
;
Holidays
;
Manners and customs
;
Swedish Americans ; Social life and customs
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Holidays (non-religious)
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
West (U.S.) Social life and customs
;
Rocky Mountains Region Social life and customs
;
Rocky Mountains
;
Rocky Mountains Region
;
West United States
Abstract:
"Focused on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration. Combines folklore and history, to explore various ways Midsummer-related celebrations blended with the American 4thth of July and the Mormon Latter Day Saint Pioneer Day on July 24th"--
Abstract:
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Spring-to-Summer Celebration: Abundance and Redundancy; 2. Midsummer in the Rockies; 3. A Crowded Celebrations Calendar; 4. Speaking and Writing Celebration; 5. Midsummer Blendings of Sacred and Secular; 6. On Swedish Soil in Grove and Arbor: Private Celebrations in a Middle Landscape; 7. Uneasy Scandinavianism in theSpring-Summer Holidays; 8. Shifts in Spring-Summer Celebration: Modes, Media, and Messages; References; About the Author; Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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