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Shaker Fever : America's Twentieth-Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect /
"Americans were enthralled by the Shakers in the years between 1925 and 1965. They bought Shaker furniture, saw Shaker worship services enacted on Broadway, sang Shaker songs, dressed in Shaker-inspired garb, collected Shaker artifacts, and restored Shaker villages. William D. Moore analyzes th...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston
University of Massachusetts Press
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Visualizing the Shakers : the early museum exhibits at the New York State Museum, the Berkshire Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art
- "A native tradition with a future" : the Shakers, the New Deal, and national design
- "Using material from our own history in the arts" : performing the Shakers, 1930-1959
- Instituting a Shaker museum : the Yale University Art Gallery and the Shaker Museum at Old Chatham
- "Real Americana" : Shaker pageants, adapted sites, folk music, and heritage tourism
- Opening the villages to the public, 1955-1965
- "Borrowed light" : persistent symptoms of Shaker fever.