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Selling Tradition - Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940 (Paperback, New edition)
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Selling Tradition - Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940 (Paperback, New edition)
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The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a growing
interest in America's folk heritage, as Americans began to
enthusiastically collect, present, market, and consume the nation's
folk traditions. Examining one of this century's most prominent
""folk revivals""--the reemergence of Southern Appalachian
handicraft traditions in the 1930s--Jane Becker unravels the
cultural politics that bound together a complex network of
producers, reformers, government officials, industries, museums,
urban markets, and consumers, all of whom helped to redefine
Appalachian craft production in the context of a national cultural
identity. Becker uses this craft revival as a way of exploring the
construction of the cultural categories ""folk"" and ""tradition.""
She also addresses the consequences such labels have had on the
people to whom they have been assigned. Though the revival of
domestic arts in the Southern Appalachians reflected an attempt to
aid the people of an impoverished region, she says, as well as a
desire to recapture an important part of the nation's folk
heritage, in reality the new craft production owed less to
tradition than to middle-class tastes and consumer culture--forces
that obscured the techniques used by mountain laborers and the
conditions in which they worked. |Examines the reemergence of
Southern Appalachian handicraft traditions in the late 1930s,
discussing the cultural politics involved in adapting tradition to
the needs of consumer culture.
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