Icon, brand, myth
Subtitle: the Calgary Stampede
By: edited by Max Foran.
Contributors: Foran, Maxwell.
Series: West unbound
Publisher: AU Press; Athabasca University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Edmonton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781897425039; 9781897425053
Subjects: Calgary (Alta.) -- History; Calgary (Alta.) -- Social conditions; Calgary (Alb.) -- Histoire; Calgary (Alb.) -- Conditions sociales
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 335-347.

Issued also in electronic format.