Poplore: Folk and Pop in American Culture 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 Wo
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| Title | : | Poplore: Folk and Pop in American Culture |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (880 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087023904X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1994-11-29 |
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Editorial : "Poplore is wonderful. A very sensible new word; Bluestein's analysis makes sense. Two centuries ago the word 'folklore' made sense, describing the traditional culture of the peasant class, 90% of the population. In these industrial-technology ridden times, it's better to use a new word that to try to make an old one fit."Pete Seeger"The book's thesis and presentation are strong. Its important argument augments the push on the New Historicists and corrects a log of nonsense about the purity of the folk."W. T. Lhamon, author of Deliberate Speed: The Origins of Style in the American 1950s
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
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