Icon, Brand, Myth

The Calgary Stampede

Edited by Max Foran
Categories: History, Social Sciences, Popular Culture, Communication & Media Studies, Sociology
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Ebook (EPUB) : 9781771991476, 369 pages, April 2008
Ebook (Kindle) : 9781771991483, 369 pages, April 2008
Hardcover : 9781897425039, 352 pages, April 2008
Paperback : 9781897425053, 352 pages, April 2008
Ebook (PDF) : 9781897425121, 369 pages, April 2008
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Table of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1 The Stampede in Historical Context - Max Foran
Chapter 2 Making Tradition: The Calgary Stampede, 1912–1939 - Donald G. Wetherell
Chapter 3 The Indians and the Stampede - Hugh A. Dempsey
Chapter 4 Calgary’s Parading Culture Before 1912 - Lorry W. Felske
Chapter 5 Midway to Respectability: Carnivals at the Calgary Stampede - Fiona Angus
Chapter 6 More Than Partners: The Calgary Stampede and the City of Calgary - Max Foran
Chapter 7 Riding Broncs and Taming Contradictions: Reflections on the Uses of the Cowboy in the
Calgary Stampede - Tamara Palmer Seiler
Chapter 8 A Spurring Soul: A Tenderfoot’s Guide to the Calgary Stampede Rodeo - Glen Mikkelsen
Chapter 9 The Half a Mile of Heaven’s Gate - Aritha van Herk
Chapter 10 “Cowtown It Ain’t”: The Stampede and Calgary’s Public Monuments - Frits Pannekoek
Chapter 11 “A Wonderful Picture”: Western Art and the Calgary Stampede - Brian Rusted
Chapter 12 The Social Construction of the Canadian Cowboy: Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Posters, 1952–1972 - Robert M. Seiler and Tamara Palmer Seiler
Chapter 13 Renewing the Stampede for the 21st Century: A Conversation with Vern Kimball, Calgary Stampede Chief Executive Officer

Bibliography / Contributors / Index

Description

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.

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" ... a great beginning for a more thoughtful consideration of the Calgary Stampede and its place in Western Canadian culture."

- Left History