Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova ScotiaMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 19 sept 1994 - 392 páginas The use and abuse of the idea of the "Simple Life" in tourism promotion and the massive dissemination of folk images are analysed in depth. McKay examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten to erase evidence of an urban, capitalist society, of class and ethnic differences, and of women's emancipation. He sheds new light on the roles of Helen Creighton, the Maritime region's most famous folklorist, and Mary Black, an influential handicrafts revivalist, in creating this false identity. McKay also looks at the infusion of the folk ideology into the art and literature of the region. McKay puts the folk concept into contemporary and international contexts by drawing on Marxist notions of political economy, Gramscian models of cultural production and hegemony, and Foucaultian structuralism. The Quest of the Folk will be of interest to folklorists, cultural historians, literary scholars, and anyone with an interest in the local history of the Maritimes or Maritime regional identity. |
Índice
| 3 | |
2 Helen Creighton and the Rise of Folklore | 43 |
3 Mary Black and the Invention of Handicrafts | 152 |
The Folk and the Pursuit of the Simple Life | 214 |
5 The Folk under Conditions of Postmodernity | 274 |
Notes | 313 |
Bibliography | 351 |
| 367 | |
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Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century ... Ian McKay Vista previa restringida - 1994 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Acadian American antimodernism antimodernist Atlantic authenticity Black diary notes Black Papers Bluenose Canada Canadian Cape Breton Carmen Roy century Chéticamp Child ballads collector concept craft revival Creighton Collection Creighton Papers Creighton to Carmen cultural producers developed Devil's Island essence essentialist ethnic fisherfolk fishermen fishing folk music folklore folklorist folksong Fowke gender Gibbon Gillis groups Halifax handicrafts Hartley Helen Creighton Ibid identity ideology imagined Industry and Publicity Innocence interest JHA Industry labour living Lorne Pierce Lunenburg County Mackenzie MacLennan Maritime Marius Barbeau Marsden Hartley Mary Black middle-class modern Museum National natural never Nova Scotia Nova Scotia tartan PANS photograph political popular postmodern pre-modern primitive province province's quaint Quest Raddall region Rockbound romantic rugs rural Scottish sense sing singers social society songs stories suggested tartan tion Toronto tourist twentieth-century urban weaving women workers wrote
Pasajes populares
Página xvii - Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.
Página xiii - We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present to us as we are.
Página xiii - The indexical nature of the photograph - the causative link between the pre-photographic referent and the sign - is therefore highly complex, irreversible, and can guarantee nothing at the level of meaning.
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Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada ... Peter Stuart McInnis Vista previa restringida - 2002 |