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Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity

Autor Sara Hume
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 dec 2023
Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices for rural religious events. Yet despite its fundamentally local nature, traditional dress in various European regions developed along a similar trajectory, sometimes being transformed into political symbols and regional promotion for tourism, and always revealing the complexity of rural society in terms of religious divisions, class inequality and tension between the desires to protect tradition and embrace modernity. To better understand how traditional dress evolved in France and Germany from the 19th to 21st centuries, this book takes Alsace as its case study and in doing so illuminates broad experiences of modernity across rural Europe and answers overarching questions about regionalism and nationalism.Specifically, Sara Hume unpacks why Alsatian dress was adopted as a symbol of loyalty to France despite being closer in style to German dress practices. She explores the impact of political and geographical tensions on the appearance and function of traditional clothing, for example in Alsace's situation at the border between France and Germany and in its transformation from disputed territory into capital of a united Europe. Logically progressing chapters reveal how modernity did not drive out tradition in rural communities but rather led to processes of adaption, preservation and re-evaluation.Through a rich variety of primary sources including costumes, illustrations, political cartoons, legal documents and oral histories, Regional Dress sheds light on the little known and rarely documented experiences of rural Europeans. Its material culture approach to the study of regionalism is essential to students of traditional and folk dress history, European history and design history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350327733
ISBN-10: 1350327735
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 22 color and 63 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

100 illustrations and a range of primary material are closely anaylsed giving the reader a firm grounding in Alsatian dress and the author's methodologies

Notă biografică

Sara Hume is Professor and Curator at Kent State University Museum, USA.

Cuprins

List of PlatesList of FiguresList of MapsAcknowledgementsMapsIntroduction1. Religious PerformanceRelationship between religion and dressProcessions and the performance of CatholicismPerformance of ProtestantismOther minority religious groupsExclusion of minority religions from public spacesDress as ritualDeclining link between regional dress and religious observance2. Visual RepresentationField guide to the folkPhotography of regional dressRealism and regional dressBook illustrationsArt Nouveau and the Alsatian AwakeningSpindler as photographer and ethnologueDevelopment of l'Alsacienne as a symbol of Alsace3. Material GoodsBasic components of rural Alsatian wardrobesShift to coordinating outfitsQuantity and value of clothingEvolution of special occasion wearDevelopment of retail in AlsaceIntroduction of department storesHome based industrial productionEducation and apprenticeship for craftspeopleApprenticeships in the interwar periodTailoring and dressmaking in literature4. Museum ObjectsRoots of folk museumsFounding of the Musée alsacienThe collection and its acquisitionNature of the early displaysProducing and reproducing the image of regional cultureKermesse: masquerade and commerce5. Living HistoryNon-religious festivalsWedding processionsTurn-of-the-century festivalsFolklorization of Fête-DieuFolk dress in political ralliesOrganization of folk groupsNazi influence on folkloreRe-emergence of interest in folkloreConclusionBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

A brilliant book that sheds new light on the history of regional dress. It is a welcome addition to fashion, costume studies and material culture with their implications with history (local and international), society, gender and politics.
Brilliantly traces the evolution of Alsatian regional dress across the 19th and 20th centuries. Sara Hume offers vivid descriptions of costume in contexts from images to museums to material culture, and uncovers regional dress as a living object which complicates our assumptions about the meanings of tradition and modernity in contemporary Europe.