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Icon, Brand, Myth

The Calgary Stampede

edited by Max Foran

Publisher
Athabasca University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2008
Category
General, Customs & Traditions, Rodeos

  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771991476
    Publish Date
    Apr 2008
    List Price
    $29.99

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897425053
    Publish Date
    Apr 2008
    List Price
    $29.99

  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781897425039
    Publish Date
    Apr 2008
    List Price
    $29.99

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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.

About the author

Max Foran is the author of a dozen books, including The Chalk and the Easel: Stanford Perrott, Teacher?Painter; Trails and Trials: Markets and Land Use in the Canadian Cattle Industry; Roland Gissing: the People's Painter; and Calgary: Canada's Frontier Metropolis. He is a professor in the University of Calgary's faculty of Communications and Culture.

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Editorial Reviews

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

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