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Author McKay, Ian, 1953-

Title The quest of the folk : antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia / Ian McKay.

Publication Info. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1994]
©1994
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 371 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Carleton Library Series ; v. 212
Carleton library series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-366) and index.
Contents Prologue: A Postcard from the "Shore of Songs" -- The Idea of the Folk -- Helen Creighton and the Rise of Folklore -- Mary Black and the Invention of Handicrafts -- "O, So True & Real Like the Sea & the Rocks": The Folk and the Pursuit of the Simple Life -- The Folk under Conditions of Postmodernity.
Summary Argues that the popular conception of Nova Scotians as a pure, simple, idyllic people is false. This title shows how the province's tourism industry and cultural producers manipulated and refashioned the cultural identity of the region and its people to project traditional folk values. It examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten.
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Subject Tourism -- Social aspects -- Nova Scotia.
Tourism -- Social aspects.
Nova Scotia.
Folklorists -- Nova Scotia.
Folklorists.
Nova Scotia -- Folklore -- Social aspects.
Folklore.
Social aspects.
Nova Scotia -- Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Nova Scotia -- Social life and customs.
Indexed Term Culture
Nova Scotia
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: McKay, Ian, 1953- Quest of the folk. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1994 0773511792 (DLC) 95166765 (OCoLC)30511377
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