A Lark for the Sake of Their Country: The 1926 General Strike Volunteers in Folk

Description: A Lark for the Sake of Their Country by Rachelle Saltzman A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class volunteers in Great Britains 1926 General Strike. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class volunteers in the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain. With behaviour derived from their play traditions - the larks, rags, fancy dress parties, and treasure hunts that prevailed at universities and country houses - the volunteers transformed a potential workers revolution into festive public display of Englishness. Decades later, collective folk memories about this event continue to define national identity. Based on correspondence and interviews with volunteers and strikers, as well as contemporary newspapers and magazines, novels, diaries, plays, and memoirs, this book recreates the context for the volunteers actions. It explores how the upper classes used the strike to assert their ideological right to define Britishness as well as how scholars, novelists, playwrights, diarists, museum curators, local historians, and even a theme restaurant, have continued to recycle the strike to define British identity. -- . Flap A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class volunteers in the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain. With behaviour derived from their play traditions - the larks, rags, fancy dress parties, and treasure hunts that prevailed at universities and country houses - the volunteers transformed a potential workers revolution into festive public display of Englishness. Decades later, collective folk memories about this event continue to define national identity. Based on correspondence and interviews with volunteers and strikers, as well as contemporary newspapers and magazines, novels, diaries, plays, and memoirs, this book recreates the context for the volunteers actions. It explores how the upper classes used the strike to assert their ideological right to define Britishness as well as how scholars, novelists, playwrights, diarists, museum curators, local historians, and even a theme restaurant, have continued to recycle the strike to define British identity. Author Biography Rachelle Hope Saltzman is Executive Director of the Oregon Folklife Network at the University of Oregon Table of Contents Preface1. Introduction: folklore, memory, and the volunteers of 19262. Building Jerusalem: The General Strike as social drama3. Social distinctions, social actions among the upper and middle classes4. Fides est servanda: keeping the faith5. Images of the volunteers: media versus memory6. Humours of the Great Strike7. The volunteers farewell: closing rituals, genteel ironies8. From ethos to mythos: the General Strike and Britishness9. 1926 and all that . . . : Britishness and the volunteersBibliography Index Review Winner of the 2012 Wayland Hand Prize for outstanding book in folklore and history, History and Folklore Section, American Folklore Society[P]raiseworthy in the judges view is the authors integration of multiple methodologies including oral history, ethnographic analysis, rhetorical criticism, and social evaluation to offer a cohesive and persuasive argument for the symbol-building functions of historical events that groups embrace to achieve a cooperative society out of conflict.[Rachelle H. Saltzmans] book will help restore volunteers to a more central place in the story of the General Strike, and indeed in British social history more broadly.Georgina Brewis, Contemporary British History, May 2013The book succeeds in drawing on memoirs, newspaper articles and a great many marvellous interviews to capture the motivations and experiences of the many thousands of men and women who volunteered to keep basic services running. The strike emerges not as a great national festival but as a ritual enactment of the politics of class. Susan Pedersen, London Review of Books, August 2013...Saltzman... draws most extensively on original fieldwork carried out in 1985–6 and involving contact with over three hundred respondents .... In the picture which she builds up from these, it is with the recent experience of First World War that the idea of service to the nation is inseparably associated. Kevin Morgan, History Workshop Journal, February 2013 -- . Promotional A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class volunteers in Great Britains 1926 General Strike. Prizes Winner of Wayland D. Hand Prize for Outstanding Book in Folklore and History 2012 (United States) Long Description A lark for the sake of their country tells the tale of the upper and middle-class volunteers in the 1926 General Strike in Great Britain. With behaviour derived from their play traditions - the larks, rags, fancy dress parties, and treasure hunts that prevailed at universities and country houses - the volunteers transformed a potential workers revolution into festive public display of Englishness. Decades later, collective folk memories about this event continue to define national identity. Based on correspondence and interviews with volunteers and strikers, as well as contemporary newspapers and magazines, novels, diaries, plays, and memoirs, this book recreates the context for the volunteers actions. It explores how the upper classes used the strike to assert their ideological right to define Britishness as well as how scholars, novelists, playwrights, diarists, museum curators, local historians, and even a theme restaurant, have continued to recycle the strike to define British identity. -- . Review Quote Winner of the 2012 Wayland Hand Prize for outstanding book in folklore and history, History and Folklore Section, American Folklore Society [P]raiseworthy in the judges view is the authors integration of multiple methodologies including oral history, ethnographic analysis, rhetorical criticism, and social evaluation to offer a cohesive and persuasive argument for the symbol-building functions of historical events that groups embrace to achieve a cooperative society out of conflict. [Rachelle H. Saltzmans] book will help restore volunteers to a more central place in the story of the General Strike, and indeed in British social history more broadly. Georgina Brewis, Contemporary British History, May 2013 The book succeeds in drawing on memoirs, newspaper articles and a great many marvellous interviews to capture the motivations and experiences of the many thousands of men and women who volunteered to keep basic services running. The strike emerges not as a great national festival but as a ritual enactment of the politics of class. Susan Pedersen, London Review of Books, August 2013 ...Saltzman... draws most extensively on original fieldwork carried out in 1985-6 and involving contact with over three hundred respondents .... In the picture which she builds up from these, it is with the recent experience of First World War that the idea of service to the nation is inseparably associated. Kevin Morgan, History Workshop Journal, February 2013 Description for Sales People Based on first-hand interviews and correspondence (1985-87) with nearly 300 British men and women who were volunteers, strikers, or witnesses Presents a cultural ethnography of one of modern British historys most significant events Demonstrates how the 1926 General Strike became and continues to be a symbol of Britishness Uses the methodology and theory of folklore, social anthropology, literary criticism, and social history Details ISBN0719096766 Pages 304 Publisher Manchester University Press Year 2014 ISBN-10 0719096766 ISBN-13 9780719096761 Format Paperback Imprint Manchester University Press Subtitle The 1926 General Strike Volunteers in Folklore and Memory Place of Publication Manchester Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 941.083 Short Title LARK FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR COU Language English Media Book Illustrations Illustrations, black & white Publication Date 2014-11-30 Author Rachelle Saltzman UK Release Date 2014-11-30 AU Release Date 2014-11-30 NZ Release Date 2014-11-30 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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