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Loading... Icon, Brand, Myth: The Calgary Stampede (The West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies Series)by Max Foran
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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