Icon, Brand, Myth (eBook, ePUB)

The Calgary Stampede
Redaktion: Foran, Max

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An investigation of the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for ten days every July. Since 1923, archetypal "Cowboys and Indians" are seen again at the chuckwagon races, on the midway, and throughout Calgary. Each essay in this collection examines a facet of the experience-from the images on advertising posters to the ritual of the annual parade. This study of the Calgary Stampede as a social phenomenon reveals the history and sociology of the city of Calgary and the social construction of identity for western Canada as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Athabasca University Press
• Seitenzahl: 369
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771991476
• Artikelnr.: 43371564

Autorenporträt

Max Foran is a Professor in the Faculty ofCommunication and History at the University of Calgary. He has writtenextensively on various western Canadian urban, rural, and culturaltopics, most recently on ranching, urban growth, and sustainability.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1  The Stampede in Historical Context / Max Foran 2  Making Tradition: The Calgary Stampede, 1912
1939 /Donald G. Wetherell 3  The Indians and the Stampede / Hugh A. Dempsey 4  Calgary
s Parading Culture Before 1912 / Lorry W.Felske 5   Midway to Respectability: Carnivals at the CalgaryStampede / Fiona Angus 6  More Than Partners: The Calgary Stampede and the City ofCalgary / Max Foran 7  Riding Broncs and Taming Contradictions: Reflections on theUses of the Cowboy in the Calgary Stampede / Tamara Palmer Seiler 8  A Spurring Soul: A Tenderfoot
s Guide to the CalgaryStampede Rodeo / Glen Mikkelsen 9  The Half a Mile of Heaven
s Gate / Aritha van Herk 10  
Cowtown It Ain
t
: The Stampede andCalgary
s Public Monuments / Frits Pannekoek 11 
A Wonderful Picture
: Western Art and theCalgary Stampede / Brian Rusted 12  The Social Construction of the Canadian Cowboy: CalgaryExhibitions and Stampede Posters, 1952
1972 / Robert M. Seilerand Tamara P. Seiler 13  Renewing the Calgary Stampede for the 21st Century: AConversation with Vern Kimball, Stampede Chief Executive Officer Bibliography Contributors Index