MF138 Yankee Moderns : Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920 / Michael Hoberman

Series of interviews done for Hoberman's book, Yankee Moderns: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000). In his work, Hoberman "explores the convergence of folk regional identity—a culturally based sense of place—with the social, economic, and psychic pressures that have come with modernity. Focusing on the oral traditions of a small place, the Sawmill Valley of western Massachusetts, he finds that the folklife of apparently isolated rural communities is far more dynamic and adaptable to change than is popularly supposed."