Shaker Fever : America's Twentieth-Century Fascination with a Communitarian Sect /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, William D. 1963- (Author, Verfasser)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston University of Massachusetts Press [2020]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shakers
USA
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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