The Philadelphia Mummers [[electronic resource] ] : Building Community Through Play
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| Autore: |
Masters Patricia
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| Titolo: |
The Philadelphia Mummers [[electronic resource] ] : Building Community Through Play
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.484 |
| 394/.50974811 | |
| Soggetto topico: | New Year - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History |
| Parades - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History | |
| Parades | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - Social life and customs | |
| Philadelphia Mummers (Organization) - History | |
| Parades - History - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania | |
| New Year - History - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia | |
| Anthropology | |
| Social Sciences | |
| Manners & Customs | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 From Play to Play Community: The Early Years of the Mummers Parade; 2 Expanding the Play Community: The Contemporary Parade; 3 Blacks, Women, and the "New" Immigrants: The Mummers and Diversity; Photo gallery follows page 94; 4 "Going Up the Street": The Experience of the Parade; 5 Rituals and the Play Community; 6 Family, Club, and Neighborhood; 7 The Experience of Play; 8 The Mummers Past and Future; APPENDIX Research Methods and Materials: The Ethnographic Challenge; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Every New Year's Day since 1901, the Philadelphia Mummers have presented a spectacular show of shows that raucously snakes and shimmies its way through city streets. The Mummers Parade features music, dance, comedy, and mime, along with dazzling costumes and floats. Although the lavish event is now televised to a wide audience, it is still rooted in the same neighborhoods where it began. This book explores the community created and annually reaffirmed by the Philadelphia Mummers. The author spent more than five years with the Mummers, observing their lives and rituals as she too |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Philadelphia Mummers |
| ISBN: | 1-282-04739-6 |
| 1-59213-611-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454044403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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