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Author Attebery, Jennifer Eastman, 1951-

Title Pole raising and speech making : modalities of Swedish-American summer celebration / Jennifer Eastman Attebery
Published Boulder, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Ritual, festival, and celebration ; volume 3
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 the Spring-Summer Holidays; 8. Shifts in Spring-Summer Celebration: Modes, Media, and Messages; References; About the Author; Index
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Festivals -- Rocky Mountains Region
Holidays -- Rocky Mountains region
Folklore -- Rocky Mountains
Swedish Americans -- Rocky Mountains region -- Social life and customs
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Holidays (non-religious)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Festivals
Folklore
Holidays
Manners and customs
Swedish Americans -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT Rocky Mountains Region -- Social life and customs
West (U.S.) -- Social life and customs
Subject Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains Region
West United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780874219999
087421999X