Quest of the Folk

Quest of the Folk
Author: Ian McKay
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN: 077357543X

Ian McKay shows how the tourism industry & cultural producers have manipulated the cultural identity of Nova Scotia to project traditional folk values. He offers analysis of the infusion of folk ideology into the art & literature of the region, & the use of the idea of the 'simple life' in tourism promotion.