Quest of the Folk

Quest of the Folk PDF Author: Ian McKay
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077357543X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Book Description
Ian McKay shows how the tourism industry & cultural producers have manipulated the cultural identity of Nova Scotia to project traditional folk values. He offers analysis of the infusion of folk ideology into the art & literature of the region, & the use of the idea of the 'simple life' in tourism promotion.