Pole Raising and Speech Making: Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration

by Jennifer Eastman Attebery

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874219981
• ISBN13: 9780874219982
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Utah State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up