The quest of the folk: antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia
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1. Verfasser: McKay, Ian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press c1994
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-366) and index
Prologue: A Postcard from the "Shore of Songs" -- The Idea of the Folk -- Helen Creighton and the Rise of Folklore -- Mary Black and the Invention of Handicrafts -- "O, So True & Real Like the Sea & the Rocks": The Folk and the Pursuit of the Simple Life -- The Folk under Conditions of Postmodernity
Argues that the popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false. This title shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. It examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 371 p.)
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