All Around the Year: Holidays and Celebrations in American Life - Softcover

Santino, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252065166 ISBN 13: 9780252065163

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1995

Synopsis

Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays.
 
Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.
 

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Jack Santino's guide to such festivities is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, family and neighborhood rituals, and life-cycle customs and celebrations. He draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to reveal the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles they play in people's personal and public lives.

About the Author:

Jack Santino, is a professor of popular culture at Bowling Green University. He is the author of Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle: Stories of Black Pullman Porters and Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life, Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0252065166
• ISBN 13: 9780252065163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256