Table of Contents

; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue. The Past and Present in Tradition; 1.; The Problem of Tradition; Folklore and the Study of Tradition; Folk and Tradition in Popular Discourse; Tradition in Scholarly Discourse; Tradition in the Press; The Politics of Tradition; The Character of Tradition; 2.; Folklore and Ideology during the Gilded Age; Museums in the Advance of Civilization; Folklore at the Fair; The Ideology of Evolution; Black Folklore and "Progress of the Race"; Relativism and the Diversity of American Culture; 3.; The English Connection, from Cultural Survivals to Cultural Studies; Rationality and Morality; Function and the Role of Tradition; Analyzing Tradition across the Atlantic; The Problem of Childhood; The Folklore of Modernism; 4.; The Americanization of the Brothers Grimm; The German Grimms; The English Grimms; The American Grimms; The Academic Grimms; 5.; Martha Warren Beckwith and the Rise of Academic Authority; 6.; Alfred Shoemaker and the Discovery of American Folklife; The Ethnic Connection; The Celebration of Decorative and Preindustrial Arts; The Community Emphasis; The Emergence of Folklife; The Creation of the First Department of Folklore; After Shoemaker: The Public Face of Folklife; 7.; Henry W. Shoemaker and the Fable of Public Folklore; Writing Traditions; Publicizing Traditions; Creating a Public Folklore for the State; Professionalism and Authenticity; Revision of the Historical Narrative; 8.; Richard Dorson and the Great Debates; The Fakelore Debate; The Applied Folklore Debate; The Nationalism Debate; Discipline from Discourse; 9.; Displaying American Tradition in Folk Arts; Natives and Immigrants in Folkloristic Presentation; Modernism and Nationalism in the Art World; "Circles" and "Treasures" of Folk Art; Art and the Elevation of Tradition; Praxis and the Representation of Action; Epilogue. The Future of Tradition; Bibliographic Essay; Expressions and Performers; Identities and Communities; Settings and Contexts; Guides, Histories, Bibliographies, and Internet Sources; Premise and Promise; Notes; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Bibliographic Essay; References; Index;