ISBN:
9780874212396
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (580 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Following Tradition : Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture
DDC:
398.09
Keywords:
Oral tradition - United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Past and Present in Tradition -- 1. The Problem of Tradition -- Folklore and the Study of Tradition -- Folk and Tradition in Popular Discourse -- Tradition in Scholarly Discourse -- Tradition in the Press -- The Politics of Tradition -- The Character of Tradition -- 2. Folklore and Ideology during the Gilded Age -- Museums in the Advance of Civilization -- Folklore at the Fair -- The Ideology of Evolution -- Black Folklore and "Progress of the Race" -- Relativism and the Diversity of American Culture -- 3. The English Connection, from Cultural Survivals to Cultural Studies -- Rationality and Morality -- Function and the Role of Tradition -- Analyzing Tradition across the Atlantic -- The Problem of Childhood -- The Folklore of Modernism -- 4. The Americanization of the Brothers Grimm -- The German Grimms -- The English Grimms -- The American Grimms -- The Academic Grimms -- 5. Martha Warren Beckwith and the Rise of Academic Authority -- 6. Alfred Shoemaker and the Discovery of American Folklife -- The Ethnic Connection -- The Celebration of Decorative and Preindustrial Arts -- The Community Emphasis -- The Emergence of Folklife -- The Creation of the First Department of Folklore -- After Shoemaker: The Public Face of Folklife -- 7. Henry W. Shoemaker and the Fable of Public Folklore -- Writing Traditions -- Publicizing Traditions -- Creating a Public Folklore for the State -- Professionalism and Authenticity -- Revision of the Historical Narrative -- 8. Richard Dorson and the Great Debates -- The Fakelore Debate -- The Applied Folklore Debate -- The Nationalism Debate -- Discipline from Discourse -- 9. Displaying American Tradition in Folk Arts -- Natives and Immigrants in Folkloristic Presentation -- Modernism and Nationalism in the Art World.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
