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Icon, brand, myth : the Calgary Stampede / edited by Max Foran.
- Title
- Icon, brand, myth : the Calgary Stampede / edited by Max Foran.
- Publication
- Edmonton : AU Press, c2008.
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- Description
- xiv, 354 p. : ill., ports., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This hook investigates the meanings and iconography of the Stampede: an invented tradition that takes over the city of Calgary for 10 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 as a component of the social construction of identity for western Canada as a whole."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- West unbound, 1915-8181
- Uniform Title
- West unbound
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references: p. 335-347.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The Stampede in Historical Context / Max Foran -- Ch. 2. Making Tradition: The Calgary Stampede, 1912-1939 / Donald G. Wetherell -- Ch. 3. The Indians and the Stampede / Hugh A. Dempsey -- Ch. 4. Calgary's Parading Culture Before 1912 / Lorry W. Felske -- Ch. 5. Midway to Respectability: Carnivals at the Calgary Stampede / Fiona Angus -- Ch. 6. More Titan Partners: The Calgary Stampede and the City of Calgary / Max Foran -- Ch. 7. Riding Broncs and Taming Contradictions: Reflections on the Uses of the Cowboy in the Calgary Stampede / Tamara Palmer Seiler -- Ch. 8. A Spurring Soul: A Tenderfoots Guide to the Calgary Stampede Rodeo / Glen Mikkelsen -- Ch. 9. The Half a Mile of Heavens Gate / Aritha van Herk -- Ch. 10. "Cowtown It Ain't": The Stampede and Calgary's Public Monuments / Frits Pannekoek -- Ch. 11. "A Wonderful Picture": Western Art and the Calgary Stampede / Brian Rusted -- Ch. 12. The Social Construction of the Canadian Cowboy: Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Posters, 1952-1972 / Robert M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler -- Ch. 13. Renewing the Stampede for the 21st Century: A Conversation with Vern Kimball, Calgary Stampede Chief Executive Officer.
- ISBN
- 9781897425039 (bound)
- 1897425031 (bound)
- 9781897425053 (pbk.)
- 1897425058 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2008426809
- OCLC
- 222517712
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library