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[Myth]

Item number (ISN):

513784

Series title:

The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight

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Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

513784

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Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: IDEAS

Accession:

1972-0015

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

1966-05-19

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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Radio program THE BEST IDEAS YOU'LL HEAR TONIGHT. Theme: Myth. Part 1 - Myth and National Culture. Messianic Myth. Talk by Jill CONWAY, Department of History, Toronto University, specialist in the 19th century Americ.an social history, about: history, American history, messianic belief, idea of chosen nation, the Pioutans, the protestant ethic, the revolutionary period, Thomas Jefferson, idealism and U.S, mission, the Civil War, commitment to democracy; race relations, slavery, reconstruction, Americanisation and blacks, withdrawal of North from South; immigration, American immigration problems, Central European immigrant s; democracy, democracy and American racism, social Darwinists and democracy; race relations, Anglo-Saxon racism, Anglo-Saxon race, Americanisation of unfeuois, eradication of biologically unfit; democracy, redefinition of democracy, the Progressive Movement, democracy as a way of life; National Association for Advancement of Coloured Peoples (N.A.A.C.P.); democracy, Woodrow Wilson, optimism; history, First World War, disillusionment, 1920s optimism, history on the American side, depression, the 1929 Crash, the New Deal, F.D.R., Roosevelt and Just Society, Second World War, American mission in post-war world, Truman doctrine, defence of free world, cosmic struggle and dark forces of communism, Kennedy era, pragmatism, Johnson's foreign policy. Part 2 - The Travelling Folk of the British Isles. Selection of songs and legends, narrated by Ken HASLAM, chosen and prepared by Edith Fowke, folklorist, about: folklore, wandering tribes of India; music, music of wanderers; folklore, Romanies, gypsies, gypsy legends, gypsy songs. <59mn 15s>

Language:

English
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of CBC : restricted for broadcasting

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