ISBN:
0271023783
,
9780271023786
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 316 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Riot and revelry in early America
DDC:
394.26973
Keywords:
Popular music History and criticism To 1901
;
Parades History 18th century
;
Festivals History 18th century
;
Riots History 18th century
;
United States Social life and customs To 1775
Description / Table of Contents:
Skimmington in the middle and New England colonies / Steven J. StewartThe rise of rough music: reflections on an ancient new custom in eighteenth-century New Jersey / Brendan McConville -- Crowd and court: rough music and popular justice in colonial New York / Thomas J. Humphrey -- Play as prelude to revolution: Boston, 1765-1776 / William Pencak -- Rough music on Independence Day, Philadelphia, 1778 / Susan E. Klepp -- White Indians in Penn's city: the loyal sons of St. Tammany / Roger D. Abrahams -- The eighteenth-century discovery of Columbus: the Columbian tercentenary (1792) and the creation of American national identity / Matthew Dennis -- American women and the French revolution: gender and partisan festive culture in the early Republic / Susan Branson and Simon P. Newman -- African American festive style and the creation of American culture / William D. Piersen -- The paradox of "nationalist" festivals: the case of Palmetto Day in antebellum Charleston / Len Travers.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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