UID:
edocfu_9959228421902883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 270 p. )
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ill. ;
ISBN:
0-87417-418-X
Series Statement:
Wilbur S. Shepperson series in history in humanities
Content:
In this broadly researched and engagingly written study, historian Michael Allen examines the image of the rodeo cowboy and the role this image has played in popular culture over the past century. He sees rodeo as a significant American folk festival and the rodeo cowboy as the surviving avatar of a nearly vanished authentic figure - the "real cowboy," who embodies the skills and values of traditional western rural culture. Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination explores the evolution of the myth of the rodeo man and its subsequent institutionalization and acculturation into the media of popular culture - movies and television, folklore and literature, country music, and the visual arts.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Introduction: Frontier, Civilization, and the Meaning of Rodeo --
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"Real Cowboys": A Brief History of Rodeo --
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"Goin' Down That Road": The Rodeo Cowboy in Movies and Television --
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"Wild Side of Life": The Rodeo Cowboy in Folklore and Literature --
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"Getting It Right": The Rodeo Cowboy in Art --
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"I Ain't Rich but Lord I'm Free": The Rodeo Cowboy in Country Music --
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"If You're a Cowboy, You're a Cowboy": Rainbow Rodeo Riders and the Archetypal Anti-Archetype --
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"Hooked on an 8 Second Ride": The Rodeo Cowboy as Contemporary Ancestor and Popular-Culture Hero --
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Rodeo Cowboy Lingo: A Glossary --
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Rodeo Sources Roundup Program: Bibliographical Essay.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-87417-315-9
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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