Serious nonsense : groundhog lodges, Versammlinge, and Pennsylvania German heritage /

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"Explores Pennsylvania German versammlinge (meetings), where participants celebrate and preserve their heritage and culture. Argues that these gatherings, conducted in the Pennsylvania German Deitsch language, are rooted in American communicative styles that date back to the late nineteenth and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donner, William Wilkinson (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Pennsylvania Dutch > Social life and customs.
Meetings > Pennsylvania > History.
Pennsylvania Dutch (Ethnie) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Réunions > Pennsylvanie > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Meetings.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The people and language that the Versammlinge celebrate
  • Making tradition : the origins and development of the Versammlinge
  • "Let us Deitsche be what we are" : the structure of versammling events
  • Theatricality : performing tradition
  • The message of the Versammlinge : the Reverend Clarence Rahn and the main speech
  • Region and nation : contexts for the versammling movement
  • The future of Pennsylvania Germans and their Versammlinge.

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