Author: Henry Glassie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

2 reviews

Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.7

ISBN: 0812211391
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.209416
EAN: 9780812211399

Publication Date: January 1, 1976
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•	Hardcover - All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming
•	Unknown Binding - All silver and no brass: An Irish Christmas mumming

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description

For the general reader as for the folklorist, this is a fascinating, vivid, and sensitive account that, through its portraits of individuals and of a community, offers a unique insight into a folk custom of the Christmas season.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars

not for children September 30, 2004
Jean Sue Libkind (Philadelphia)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful

This is a serious book by a noted folklore scholar. It is not appropriate for children as noted above.

The Bookschlepper

5 out of 5 stars

Mumming Revived June 8, 2004
grasshopper4 (Arkansas)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful

Mumming isn't solely the New Year's tradition that is performed in Philadelphia's streets. In Ireland, it involved masking, music making, storytelling, and folk drama as mummers visited neighbors in holiday celebrations. Henry Glassie's book is a study of the folklore and oral history of mumming within a small community in the border area of Ireland and Ulster. Although the mumming tradition had died out by the mid 20th century, current residents who remembered the mumming tradition describe what one might experience when celebrating a typical evening of the old tradition. The book is a highly readable and insightful study of Irish folklife, and a fine presentation of mumming's memory culture.