Title: Folk roots, new roots :
Authors: Becker, Jane S.; Franco, Barbara.; Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of Our National Heritage.; American Folklore Society.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Museum of Our National Heritage,
Physical description: xvii, 196 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 27 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
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.
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Mass., October 16, 1988-June 25, 1989 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Folklore Society in 1888; Jane Becker, project coordinator, Barbara Franco, project director. Cf. t.p. verso.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art, American--United States--Exhibitions.; Art, American--United States.; Folklore and nationalism--United States--Exhibitions.; Folklore--United States--Exhibitions.; Folklore--United States--History--Exhibitions.; Folklore--United States--Public opinion--Exhibitions.; Folklore--United States.; Popular culture--United States--History--20th century--Exhibitions.; Public opinion--United States--Exhibitions.; Scottish Rite Masonic Museum of Our National Heritage--Exhibitions.; Social history.