LEADER 04318nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910783761803321 005 20230912123527.0 010 $a1-282-86192-1 010 $a9786612861925 010 $a0-7735-7199-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773571990 035 $a(CKB)1000000000244991 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000282670 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11237875 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282670 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10325919 035 $a(PQKB)10506443 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400290 035 $a(CaBNvSL)gtp00521547 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330711 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10132894 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL286192 035 $a(OCoLC)929120821 035 $a(DE-B1597)657428 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773571990 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/khpb63 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400290 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330711 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3243451 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000244991 100 $a20041123h20042004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe passeggiata and popular culture in an Italian town $efolklore and the performance of modernity /$fGiovanna P. Del Negro 210 1$aMontre?al ;$aIthaca :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2004. 210 4$aŠ2004 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-7735-2722-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [167]-178) and index. 327 $tFront Matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures --$tAcknowledgments --$t?Our Little Paris? --$tModernity in Folklore, Social Thought, and the Field Encounter --$tLight Industry and Accordions: Representations of Contemporary Sassano Identity --$tThe Miracle, the Blonde, and the Prostitutes: Gender and Social Change in Sassano Discourse --$tSeeing and Being Seen in the Sassano Passeggiata --$tOur Modernity --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAn immigrant daughter who returned to her mother's home town, Giovanna Del Negro spent a year doing intensive fieldwork in the homes and public spaces of Sasso. She reveals the diverse reactions that Sassani have to industrialization, changing gender roles, immigration, and the proliferation of the global media. Unlike accounts that focus exclusively on large-scale social forces or universal theories of historical change, this study, set against the backdrop of Italy's mid-1990s corruption scandals, centres on the experiences of ordinary people and the culturally specific ways that modernity reveals itself in a particular place. Del Negro focuses on the passeggiata, and her evocative descriptions of dressing, walking, courting, and socializing in the piazza paint a vivid picture of this event. Sassani pride themselves on their urbane sophistication, only half jokingly referring to their town as "our little Paris." Del Negro shows how different segments of Sassani society (older women and teenage girls, motorbike boys and established professionals) use passeggiata performances to depict themselves as modern, stake their place in the town's collective self-image, and debate the meaning of modernity. Examining everything from Sassani interpretations of tabloid television and soap operas to community games and postcards, Del Negro casts her net wide to illuminate the local culture. Richly sophisticated yet highly accessible, this innovative study speaks to contemporary debates about modernity and globalization. 517 3 $aPasseggiata 606 $aFolklore$zItaly$zAbruzzo 606 $aPlazas$xSocial aspects$zItaly$zAbruzzo 606 $aWalking$zItaly$zAbruzzo 606 $aPopular culture$zItaly$zAbruzzo 607 $aAbruzzo (Italy)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aFolklore 615 0$aPlazas$xSocial aspects 615 0$aWalking 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a394/.0945/71 700 $aDel Negro$b Giovanna$0715264 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783761803321 996 $aThe passeggiata and popular culture in an Italian town$93859850 997 $aUNINA