Modernity, Nostalgia, and Southern Folklore Studies
The Case of John Lomax
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2805510 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jerrold Hirsch (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 416 |
| Pages | 183 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/541085 |
| OpenAlex | W2323608866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 14 |
John Lomax was a romantic nationalist who maintained that American folklore was the creative response of diverse American folk groups to their New World experience, not a vanishing remnant of Old World traditions. However, he was also a nostalgic white Southerner who revealed a conservative romantic's rejection of modernity. Implicitly, Lomax contended that anything that changed the African-American's place in southern culture would destroy their folklore. The path that American folklore studies followed in the 1930s from a conservative romantic nationalism to liberal and radical variations on that idea has not been
Aesthetics · Art · Folklore · Literature · Modernity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · White (mutation) · American Sports and Literature · Anthropology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture
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Uncovering the Cornfield
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Paredes and the Hero
In Search of America
Democratic promise
The Black image in the white mind
The crucible of race
In Search of the Silent South
Ancestors and Immigrants. A Changing New England Tradition
Folk Song
The New South Creed
Lay My Burden Down
American Folklore Studies
Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898
Some Types of American Folk-Song
Our Singing Country
Towards a Definition of American Modernism
Ethnic Diversity, Cosmopolitanism and the Emergence of the American Liberal Intelligentsia
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |