The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by Ian McKay

The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

Ian McKay

392 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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The use and abuse of the idea of the "Simple Life" in tourism promotion and the massive dissemination of folk images are analysed in depth. McKay examines how Nova Scotia's cultural history was rewritten to erase evidence of an urban, capitalist s...

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