Serious Nonsense : Groundhog Lodges, Versammlinge, and Pennsylvania German Heritage William W. Donner

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donner, William Wilkinson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania Dutch--Social life and customs.

Pennsylvania Dutch.

Meetings--Pennsylvania--History.

Meetings.

Physical Description:

xv, 164 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Explores Pennsylvania German versammlinge (meetings), where participants celebrate and preserve their heritage and culture. Argues that these gatherings, conducted in the Pennsylvania German Deitsch language, are rooted in American communicative styles that date back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before mass and electronic media"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The people and language that the Versammlinge celebrate

Making tradition : the origins and development of the Versammlinge

"Let us Deitsche be what we are" : the structure of versammling events

Theatricality : performing tradition

The message of the Versammlinge : the Reverend Clarence Rahn and the main speech

Region and nation : contexts for the versammling movement

The future of Pennsylvania Germans and their Versammlinge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-157) and index.

ISBN:

9780271071183 (pbk. : alk. paper)

0271071184 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

927141227

Publisher Number:

40025990831