"Focused on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration. Combines folklore and history, to explore various ways Midsummer-related celebrations blended with the American 4thth of July and the Mormon Latter Day Saint Pioneer Day on July 24th"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Spring-to-Summer Celebration: Abundance and Redundancy; 2. Midsummer in the Rockies; 3. A Crowded Celebrations Calendar; 4. Speaking and Writing Celebration; 5. Midsummer Blendings of Sacred and Secular; 6. On Swedish Soil in Grove and Arbor: Private Celebrations in a Middle Landscape; 7. Uneasy Scandinavianism in theSpring-Summer Holidays; 8. Shifts in Spring-Summer Celebration: Modes, Media, and Messages; References; About the Author; Index.
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