Riot and revelry in early America / edited by William Pencak, Matthew Dennis, Simon P. Newman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dennis, Matthew, 1955-

Newman, Simon P. (Simon Peter), 1960-

Pencak, William, 1951-2013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Festivals--United States--History--18th century.

Festivals.

Parades--United States--History--18th century.

Parades.

Riots--United States--History--18th century.

Riots.

Popular music--United States--History--18th century.

Popular music.

History.

United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

viii, 316 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Riot and revelry have been mainstays of English and European history writing for more than a generation, but they have had a more checkered influence on American scholarship. Despite considerable attention from "new left" historians during the 1970s and early 1980s, and more recently from cultural and "public sphere" historians in the mid-1990s, the idea of America as a colony and nation deeply infused with a culture of public performance has not been widely demonstrated the way it has been in Britain, France, and Italy. In this important volume, leading American historians demonstrate that early America was in fact an integral part of a broader transatlantic tradition of popular disturbance and celebration.

Contents:

Skimmington in the middle and New England colonies / Steven J. Stewart

The rise of rough music: reflections on an ancient new custom in eighteenth-century New Jersey / Brendan McConville

Crowd and court: rough music and popular justice in colonial New York / Thomas J. Humphrey

Play as prelude to revolution: Boston, 1765-1776 / William Pencak

Rough music on Independence Day, Philadelphia, 1778 / Susan E. Klepp

White Indians in Penn's city: the loyal sons of St. Tammany / Roger D. Abrahams

The eighteenth-century discovery of Columbus: the Columbian tercentenary (1792) and the creation of American national identity / Matthew Dennis

American women and the French revolution: gender and partisan festive culture in the early Republic / Susan Branson and Simon P. Newman

African American festive style and the creation of American culture / William D. Piersen

The paradox of "nationalist" festivals: the case of Palmetto Day in antebellum Charleston / Len Travers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0271021411

0271022191

OCLC:

47651198