Folk Roots New Rootsfolklore

Published by the Museum of our National Heritage, Lexington, MA, 1988, in connection with an exhibition held Oct 16, 1998 - June 25, 1989 Soft cover, 196 pp. In very good condition. Glossy pictorial soft covers have light bumping to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. Contents include: Lenders to the Exhibition; Foreword and Acknowledgements by Jane Becker and Barbara Franco; New England Prologue: Thoreau, Antimodernism, and Folk Culture by Dillon Bustin; Introduction by Alan Jabbour; Revealing Traditions: The Politics of Culture and Community in America, 1888-1988 by Jane S. Becker; Rough Sincerities: William Wells Newell and the Discovery of Folklore in Late-19th Century America by Roger D. Abrahams; Poor Lo and Dusky Ramona: Scenes From an Album of Indian America by Rayna Green; Packaging the Folk: Tradition and Amnesia in American Advertising, 1880 - 1940 by Jackson Lears; Modernism, Edith Halpert, Holger Cahill, and the Fine Art Meaning of American Folk Art by Eugene W. Metcalf, Jr. and Claudine Weatherford; When We Were Good: The Folk Revival by Robert Cantwell; Contributors.…