Folklife and Museums by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Unlimited Model
Published: 2016-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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American Folk Museums Redux

Simon J. Bronner

Simon J. Bronner considers the trends and predictions made by Howard Wight Marshall in his seminal article “Folklife and the Rise of American Folk Museums” (1977). Observing developments over a forty-year period from the perspective of someone with feet in both academic and museum areas, Bronner suggests a reconceptualization of the folk museum from its previous iteration as a rural and farm museum. In light of changes in folklife theory to break with the idea of groups rooted in the land, Bronner evaluates efforts of museums and heritage organizations to interpret traditional practices, often with a minimum of artifacts, in mobile, urban, industrial, corporate, and maritime settings. He also differentiates between organized museums of folklife and folk displays in which communities, and even individuals, provide their own versions of heritage. Viewing the modernization of folklife representation in the twenty-first century leads Bronner to address the need for enhanced integration of academic and public education in the form of folk cultural programs, centers, institutes, organizations, and heritage parks. Bronner’s observations follow his previous contributions to museological and folklife theory in American Material Culture and Folklife (1992) and the Encyclopedia of American Folklife (2006).

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