Ski Style
Subtitle: Sport And Culture In The Rockies (Cultureamerica)
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780700613410
Subjects: Popular culture; Skiing; Social aspects; Popular Culture - General; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Western & Pacific Coast states; Skiing - General; History; United States - 20th Century; Colorado; Economic aspects; Skis and skiing
First sentence: John Dyer rose from bed early one February morning, strapped on a pair of ten-foot-long skis, and headed out into the snowstorm toward Oro City, Colorado.
Description: "Annie Coleman has written the first cultural history of skiing in the United States, recounting how this European sport evolved into an American industry combining recreation, tourism, consumption, and wilderness - along with a solid dose of exhilaration and a dash of celebrity. She reveals how the meaning of skiing changed over the twentieth century, how sport and leisure in American came to be about status and style as much as about physical activity, and how modern consumer culture merged the mythic West with real western places."

"Coleman traces skiing from its Norse roots and Alpine influences through the utility of ski travel in the winter Rockies to the rise of Colorado resorts. Much more than a history of the sport, her work explains how the recreation industry sold the experience of skiing and created mythic mountain landscapes with real problems - and a ski culture that exalts celebrity and status over the physical act of skiing."--Jacket.