A Museum Folklife Program in a Multi-cultural Urban Community
Author : Dorothy June Anderson
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Dorothy June Anderson
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : George H. Junne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 28,16 MB
Release : 2000-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313065055
Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just now beginning to receive systematic scholarly treatment. Comprehensively indexing a variety of research materials on Blacks in the North American West, Junne offers an invaluable navigational tool for students of American and African-American history. Entries are organized both geographically and topically, and cover a broad range of subjects including cross-cultural interaction, health, art, and law. Contains a complete compilation of African-American newspapers.
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,59 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Arts
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Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135578788
Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
Author : National Endowment for the Arts
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Page : 706 pages
File Size : 37,42 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Federal aid to the arts
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Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Humanities
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Author : Richard Kurin
Publisher : Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies Smithsonian Institution
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
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Author : Phyllis Bischof
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : African Americans
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Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496822668
Despite predictions that commercial mass culture would displace customs of the past, traditions firmly abound, often characterized as folklore. In The Practice of Folklore: Essays toward a Theory of Tradition, author Simon J. Bronner works with theories of cultural practice to explain the social and psychological need for tradition in everyday life. Bronner proposes a distinctive “praxic” perspective that will answer the pressing philosophical as well as psychological question of why people enjoy repeating themselves. The significance of the keyword practice, he asserts, is the embodiment of a tension between repetition and variation in human behavior. Thinking with practice, particularly in a digital world, forces redefinitions of folklore and a reorientation toward interpreting everyday life. More than performance or enactment in social theory, practice connects localized culture with the vernacular idea that “this is the way we do things around here.” Practice refers to the way those things are analyzed as part of, rather than apart from, theory, thus inviting the study of studying. “The way we do things” invokes the social basis of “doing” in practice as cultural and instrumental. Building on previous studies of tradition in relation to creativity, Bronner presents an overview of practice theory and the ways it might be used in folklore and folklife studies. Demonstrating the application of this theory in folkloristic studies, Bronner offers four provocative case studies of psychocultural meanings that arise from traditional frames of action and address issues of our times: referring to the boogieman; connecting “wild child” beliefs to school shootings; deciphering the offensive chants of sports fans; and explicating male bravado in bawdy singing. Turning his analysis to the analysts of tradition, Bronner uses practice theory to evaluate the agenda of folklorists in shaping perceptions of tradition-centered “folk societies” such as the Amish. He further unpacks the culturally based rationale of public folklore programming. He interprets the evolving idea of folk museums in a digital world and assesses how the folklorists' terms and actions affect how people think about tradition.
Author : National Endowment for the Arts
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Federal aid to the arts
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Reports for 1980-19 also include the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.