Covering Niagara : studies in local popular culture / Joan Nicks and Barry Keith Grant, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grant, Barry Keith, 1947- editor.

Nicks, Joan, 1937- editor.

Series:

Cultural studies series.

Cultural studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Ontario--Niagara (Regional municipality).

Popular culture.

Niagara (Ont. : Regional municipality)--History.

Niagara (Ont. : Regional municipality).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture closely examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what popular culture is and seek to determine whether broad theories of popular culture can explain or make sense of localized instances of popular culture and the cultural experiences of people in their daily lives. Among the many topics covered are local bicycle parades and war memorials, cooking and wine culture, radio and movie-going, music stores and music scenes, tourist s

Contents:

Part I Public Showings

Polite Athletics and Bourgeois Gaieties: Toronto Society in Late Victorian Niagara-on-the-Lake

A Promise Set in Stone: St. Catharines Honours a Common Soldier

Niagara Falls Indian Village: Popular Productions of Cultural Difference

Part II Movies and Media

Early Movie-Going in Niagara: From Itinerant Shows to Local Institutions, 1896-1910

"Hollywoodization," Gender, and the Local Press in the 1920s: The Case of Niagara Falls, Ontario

Where Is the Local in Local Radio?: The Changing Shape of Radio Programming in St. Catharines

Part III Food and Drink

Frolics with Food: The Frugal Housewife's Manual by "A.B. of Grimsby"

"A Little More Than a Drink": Public Drinking and Popular Entertainment in Post-Prohibition Niagara, 1927-1944

Niagara's Emerging Wine Culture: From a Countryside of Production to Consumption

Part IV Local Connections

"Kenny-ing": Kenny Wheeler and Local Jazz

The Music Store as a Community Resource

Back to Our Roots: How Niagara Artists Centre Became Popular Again

Part V Borderline Matters

Entertaining Niagara Falls: Minstrel Shows, Theatres, and Popular Pleasures

Electricity from Niagara Falls: Popularization of Modern Technology for Domestic Use

Weaving Local Identity: The Niagara Region Tartan and the Invention of Tradition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613810755

9781554587605

1554587603

9781282233010

1282233017

9781554582471

1554582474

OCLC:

1058004801