Download Full eBooks in PDF
Festival Of American Folklife Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Festival Of American Folklife book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Richard Kurin
Publisher : Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies Smithsonian Institution
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000060705898
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Festival of American Folklife
ISBN : IND:30000046781815
Author : Harald Zapf,Klaus Lösch
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : America
ISBN : 3823360442
Author : Olivia Cadaval,Sojin Kim,Diana Baird N'Diaye
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496805997
Since its origins in 1967, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained worldwide recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting the Festival's principles and shaping its practices. Curatorial Conversations brings together for the first time in one volume the combined expertise of the Festival's curatorial staff--past and present--in examining the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's representation practices and their critical implications for issues of intangible cultural heritage policy, competing globalisms, cultural tourism, sustainable development and environment, and cultural pluralism and identity. In the volume, edited by the staff curators Olivia Cadaval, Sojin Kim, and Diana Baird N'Diaye, contributors examine how Festival principles, philosophical underpinnings, and claims have evolved, and address broader debates on cultural representation from their own experience. This book represents the first concerted project by Smithsonian staff curators to examine systematically the Festival's institutional values as they have evolved over time and to address broader debates on cultural representation based on their own experiences at the Festival.
Author : Richard Bauman,Patricia Sawin,Inta Gale Carpenter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1879407035
This first ethnographic study of a folklife festival focuses on festival participants--the dancers, musicians, storytellers, and artisans at a public display of folk culture. These essays investigate the contention by supporters of these events that this form of folkloric representation is as intellectually legitimate as scholarly research.
Author : Rebecca M. Brown
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295999951
From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter’s wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet’s wooden hooves—these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald Reagan to strengthen relations between the two countries at a time of late Cold War tensions and global economic change, when America’s image of India was as a place of desperate poverty and spectacular fantasy. Displaying Time unpacks the intimate, small-scale durations of time at work in the gallery from the transformation of clay into ceramic to the one-on-one, personal encounters between museum visitors and artists. Using extensive archival research and interviews with artists, curators, diplomats, and visitors, Rebecca Brown analyzes a selection of museum shows that were part of the Festival of India to unfurl new exhibitionary modes: the time of transformation, of interruption, of potential and the future, as well as the contemporary and the now.
Author : Katherine S. Kirlin,Thomas M. Kirlin
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Cooking
ISBN : UOM:49015001345884
Katherine S. Kirlin and Thomas M. Kirlin. With more than 275 recipes beginning with Native American cooking and moving from region to region across the country, this cookbook celebrates the diverse flavors that together make American cooking.
Author : David W. Hughes
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9789004217874
The Japanese say that ‘folk song is the heart’s home town’. Traditional folk songs (min’yo) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of origin and continue to play a role there. Today, however, they are also taught as a quasi-art music, arranged for stage and television, quoted in Westernized popular songs and so forth.
Author : Elizabeth Fries Ellet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014726806
Author : Robert S. Cantwell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807860694
Wide-ranging and provocative, this book will fascinate all those intrigued by how we create and perpetuate our representations of folklife and culture. Ethnomimesis is Robert Cantwell's word for the process by which we take cultural influences, traditions, and practices to ourselves and then manifest them to others. Ethnomimesis is an element of ordinary social communication, but springing out of it, too, is that extraordinary summoning up that produces our literature, our art, and our music. In the broadest sense, ethnomimesis is the representation of culture. Using such diverse cultural artifacts as King Lear and an eighteenth-century English manor garden to deepen our understanding of ethnomimesis, Cantwell then explores at length the representation of culture in our national museum, the Smithsonian, focusing especially on the Festival of American Folklife. Like many other such exhibitions, the Festival enacts presentations of culture across the boundaries of rank and class, race and ethnicity, gender and the life cycle. Like the concept of 'folklife' itself, Cantwell argues, the Festival stands where ethnomimesis finds its creative source, at the cultural frontier between self and other. That boundary, and the energy that accumulates there, runs through the many, varied 'exhibits' of this book.
Author : Don Yoder
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477303542
Knowledge of folk custom and folk belief can help to explain ways of thought and behavior in modern America. American Folklife, a unique collection of essays dedicated to the presentation of American tradition, broadens our understanding of the regional differences and ethnic folkways that color American life. Folklife research examines the entire context of everyday life in past and present. It includes every aspect of traditional life, from regional architecture through the full range of material culture into spiritual culture, folk religion, witchcraft, and other forms of folk belief. This collection is especially useful in its application to American society, where countless influences from European, American Indian, and African cultural backgrounds merge. American Folklife relates folklife research to history, anthropology, cultural geography, architectural history, ethnographic film, folk technology, folk belief, and ethnic tensions in American society. It documents the folk-cultural background that is the root of our society.
Author : Phebe Ann Hanaford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X000964119
Consists of chapters by subject, including women reformers, inventors, lawyers etc.
Author : W. H. I. Bleek,L. C. Lloyd
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 101540104X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190840631
The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society. Forty-three comprehensive and diverse chapters delve into significant themes and methods of folklore and folklife study; established expressions and activities; spheres and locations of folkloric action; and shared cultures and common identities. Beyond the longstanding arenas of academic focus developed throughout the 350-year legacy of folklore and folklife study, contributors at the forefront of the field also explore exciting new areas of attention that have emerged in the twenty-first century such as the Internet, bodylore, folklore of organizations and networks, sexual orientation, neurodiverse identities, and disability groups. Encompassing a wide range of cultural traditions in the United States, from bits of slang in private conversations to massive public demonstrations, ancient beliefs to contemporary viral memes, and a simple handshake greeting to group festivals, these chapters consider the meanings in oral, social, and material genres of dance, ritual, drama, play, speech, song, and story while drawing attention to tradition-centered communities such as the Amish and Hasidim, occupational groups and their workaday worlds, and children and other age groups. Weaving together such varied and manifest traditions, this handbook pays significant attention to the cultural diversity and changing national boundaries that have always been distinctive in the American experience, reflecting on the relative youth of the nation; global connections of customs brought by immigrants; mobility of residents and their relation to an indigenous, urbanized, and racialized population; and a varied landscape and settlement pattern. Edited by leading folklore scholar Simon J. Bronner, this handbook celebrates the extraordinary richness of the American social and cultural fabric, offering a valuable resource not only for scholars and students of American studies, but also for the global study of tradition, folk arts, and cultural practice.
Author : Ronald D. Cohen
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810862026
This book presents a history of folk music festivals in the United States, beginning in the 19th century and ending in the early 21st century. The focus is on the proliferation and diversity of festivals in the 20th century.
