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Yankee Moderns: Sawmill Valley Western Massachusetts
Michael Hoberman
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Description for Yankee Moderns: Sawmill Valley Western Massachusetts
Hardcover. Num Pages: 162 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFHF; JFSF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 544.
In Yankee Moderns, Michael Hoberman explores the convergence of folk regional identity—a culturally based sense of place—with the social, economic, and psychic pressures that have come with modernity. Focusing on the oral traditions of a small place, the Sawmill Valley of western Massachusetts, he finds that the folklife of apparently isolated rural communities is far more dynamic and adaptable to change than is popularly supposed.
Deftly intertwining anecdote and analysis, Hoberman draws largely upon interviews he conducted with older residents of the Sawmill Valley. He uses their words to paint a vivid picture of everyday life there during the ... Read more
In Yankee Moderns, Michael Hoberman explores the convergence of folk regional identity—a culturally based sense of place—with the social, economic, and psychic pressures that have come with modernity. Focusing on the oral traditions of a small place, the Sawmill Valley of western Massachusetts, he finds that the folklife of apparently isolated rural communities is far more dynamic and adaptable to change than is popularly supposed.
Deftly intertwining anecdote and analysis, Hoberman draws largely upon interviews he conducted with older residents of the Sawmill Valley. He uses their words to paint a vivid picture of everyday life there during the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781572330870
SKU
V9781572330870
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