All Around the Year Holidays and Celebrations in American Life |
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| Author:
| Santino, Jack |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-06516-3 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1995 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $27.00 |
Book Description:
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Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of ''Gotterdämerung,'' Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays! Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully ......
Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of ''Gotterdämerung,'' Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays! Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully ......