Title: Folk roots, new roots : folklore in American life /
Authors: Becker, Jane S.; Franco, Barbara; Franco, Barbara, 1945-; Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of Our National Heritage.
Publisher: Museum of Our National Heritage,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Folklore United States Exhibitions.; Popular culture United States History Exhibitions.; Folklore United States History Exhibitions.; Folklore United States Public opinion Exhibitions.; Public opinion United States Exhibitions.; Folklore and nationalism United States Exhibitions.
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.