Pole Raising and Speech Making
Subtitle: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: Nov 01, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780874219982
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration (Ritual, Festival, and Celebration)