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Riot and revelry in early America /

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Other Authors: Dennis, Matthew, 1955-, Newman, Simon P. (Simon Peter), 1960-, Pencak, William, 1951-2013
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Festivals > United States > History > 18th century.
Parades > United States > History > 18th century.
Riots > United States > History > 18th century.
Popular music > United States > History > 18th century.
United States > Social life and customs > To 1775.
Table of 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.