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The Philadelphia Mummers : building community through play Patricia Anne Masters
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks GT 4011 .P5 M37 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Masters, Patricia Anne, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia Mummers (Organization)--History.
- Philadelphia Mummers (Organization).
- Parades--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Parades.
- New Year--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- New Year.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 232 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- From play to play community : the early years of the Mummers parade
- Expanding the play community : the contemporary parade
- Blacks, women, and the "new" immigrants : the Mummers and diversity
- "Going up the street" : the experience of the parade
- Rituals and the play community
- Family, club, and neighborhood
- The experience of play
- The Mummers past and future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781592136094 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1592136095 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781592136100 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1592136109 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 76791987
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