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A 10 page paper which examines how cultural nationalism and antimodernism have affected the concept of folk culture. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the world. It seems that many cultures find themselves in a culture that is largely seen as folksy to some degree, despite their living in a modern and industrialized society
and world. In essence, there are times when cultural nationalism takes a popular trend such as one which possesses a folk culture, thus leading a society into an almost antimodern
state. The topic is a complex one that can be seen from many different perspectives, utilizing many different theories. The following paper examines how cultural nationalism and anitmodernism have shaped
the conceptualization of the folk culture as seen in two different works. The works discussed and examined are Diarmuid O Giollains "Locating Irish Folklore" and Ian McKays "The Quest for
Folk." The paper examines each work separately and then presents a discussion and summary of the two works and what they teach us. Locating Irish Folklore O Giollains
work is focused, as the title suggests, on the Irish folklore and also on other Gaelic influences. In the beginning of the work he makes a very important statement in
relationship to the power and position of folk cultures. He claims that, "The concept of folklore developed partly as a nationalist reaction to a metropolitan culture with universal pretensions" (O
Giollain, 2000; 4). In this we can understand that a folk culture is actually something of a rebellion against certain aspects of modernity and also a way in which people
can cling to their own unique cultural identity. In one section O Giollain indicates that much of the Irish folklore of the past was perhaps collected by particular individuals,
thus keeping the tales safe for generations to come and thus influencing a culture. In the 20th century there was a powerful trend towards such collecting: "In the Post-Second World
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