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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bluestein, Gene, 1928- Poplore. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994 (OCoLC)609344559 Online version: Bluestein, Gene, 1928- Poplore. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1994 (OCoLC)619343012 |
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| Named Person: | Johann Gottfried Herder; Johann Gottfried Herder |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gene Bluestein |
| ISBN: | 0870239031 9780870239038 087023904X 9780870239045 |
| OCLC Number: | 29428470 |
| Description: | xiii, 167 p. : music ; 24 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Gene Bluestein. |
Abstract:
"In this innovative study, Gene Bluestein proposes that we revise our ideas about the meaning of folklore in the United States, beginning with our definition of what is "folk" and what is not. To this end, he advances the notion of "poplore" as more accurately reflective of the popular and commercial roots and dynamic, syncretic traditions of American democratic culture." "In making his case, Bluestein closely examines the folk ideology of Johann Gottfried Herder, whose theories of nationalism strongly influenced American scholars from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman to Constance Rourke and Alan Lomax. At the same time, he challenges the idea of "fakelore" popularized by Richard M. Dorson and his followers, a concept that assumes unchanging standards of what is genuinely or purely "folk."" "To illuminate the significance of "poplore" in contemporary culture, Bluestein shows how Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie, and other artists have creatively adapted traditional folk materials in their work. The book also includes interviews with legendary banjo picker and singer Buell Kazee and founder of Folkways Records, Moe Asch."--BOOK JACKET.
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Related Subjects:(10)
- Folklore -- United States.
- Popular culture -- United States.
- United States -- Social life and customs.
- Herder, Johann Gottfried, -- 1744-1803.
- Folklore -- États-Unis.
- Culture populaire -- États-Unis.
- États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes.
- Volkskultur
- Volkskunde
- USA

