In Pole Raising and Speech Making , author Jennifer Eastman Attebery focuses on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the surrounding spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration to the area—1880–1917.
Combining research in folkloristics and history, Attebery explores various ways that immigrants blended traditional Swedish Midsummer-related celebrations with local civic celebrations of American Independence Day on July 4 and the Mormons' Pioneer Day on July 24. Functioning as multimodal observances with multiple meanings, these holidays represent and reconsider ethnicity and panethnicity, sacred and secular relationships, and the rural and the urban, demonstrating how flexible and complex traditional celebrations can be.
Providing a wealth of detail and information surrounding little-studied celebrations and valuable archival and published primary sources—diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper reports, and images— Pole Raising and Speech Making is proof that non-English immigrant culture must be included when discussing "American" culture. It will be of interest to scholars and graduate students in ethnic studies, folklore, ritual and festival studies, and Scandinavian American cultural history.

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By Jennifer Eastman Attebery

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Ritual, festival, and celebration, Boulder, Colorado, 2015

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Source title: Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration (Ritual, Festival, and Celebration)

Cover 1
Title page, Copyright, Dedication 2
Contents 8
Foreword 10
Acknowledgments 12
1. Spring-to-Summer Celebration: Abundance and Redundancy 16
2. Midsummer in the Rockies 46
3. A Crowded Celebrations Calendar 69
4. Speaking and Writing Celebration 89
5. Midsummer Blendings of Sacred and Secular 106
6. On Swedish Soil in Grove and Arbor: Private Celebrations in a Middle Landscape 124
7. Uneasy Scandinavianism in theSpring-Summer Holidays 141
8. Shifts in Spring-Summer Celebration: Modes, Media, and Messages 161
References 179
About the Author 191
Index 192
Publisher:University Press of Colorado,Published:2015,ISBN:9780874219999,Related ISBN:9780874219982,Language:English,OCLC:923821448
In Pole Raising and Speech Making, author Jennifer Eastman Attebery focuses on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the surrounding spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration to the area—1880–1917

Focused On The Beginnings Of The Traditional Scandinavian Midsummer Celebration And The Spring-to-summer Seasonal Festivities In The Rocky Mountain West During The Height Of Swedish Immigration. Combines Folklore And History, To Explore Various Ways Midsummer-related Celebrations Blended With The American 4thth Of July And The Mormon Latter Day Saint Pioneer Day On July 24th-- Jennifer Eastman Attebery. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

"Focused on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration. Combines folklore and history, to explore various ways Midsummer-related celebrations blended with the American 4thth of July and the Mormon Latter Day Saint Pioneer Day on July 24th"-- Provided by publisher

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