Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 252 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), map |
Contents |
Introduction: "Toivo's Airbus, 1992" -- Early Fourth of July celebrations : from rites of resistance to celebrations of American nationalism -- The frontier period : celebrations of diversity in an isolated wilderness region, 1892-1905 -- One day for democracy : Independence Day as a festival of freedom in an era of labor oppression, 1906-24 -- The Great Depression : hard times, the New Deal, and a new nationalism, 1925-41 -- The queens of the Fourth of July : mass culture comes to the Iron Range, 1941-92 -- Epilogue: Looking into the twenty-first century |
Summary |
From the Publisher: Just before the turn of the twentieth century, immigrants from eastern and southern Europe who had settled in mining regions of Minnesota formed a subculture that combined elements of Old World traditions and American culture. Their unique pluralistic version of Americanism was expressed in Fourth of July celebrations rooted in European carnival traditions that included rough games, cross-dressing, and rowdiness. In One Day for Democracy, Mary Lou Nemanic traces the festive history of Independence Day from 1776 to the twentieth century. The author shows how these diverse immigrant groups on the Minnesota Iron Range created their own version of the celebration, the Iron Range Fourth of July. As mass-mediated popular culture emerged in the twentieth century, Fourth of July celebrations in the Iron Range began to include such popular culture elements as beauty queens and marching bands. Nemanic documents the enormous influence of these changes on this isolated region and highlights the complex interplay between popular culture and identity construction. But this is not a typical story of assimilation or ethnic separation. Instead, One Day for Democracy reveals how more than thirty different ethnic groups who shared identities as both workers and new Americans came together in a remote mining region to create their own subculture |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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European Americans -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs
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European Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Minnesota
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Fourth of July celebrations -- Minnesota -- History
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Immigrants -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs
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Miners -- Minnesota -- Social life and customs
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Iron ranges -- Minnesota -- History
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Fourth of July celebrations.
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Immigrants -- Social life and customs.
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Iron ranges.
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Manners and customs.
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Miners -- Social life and customs.
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SUBJECT |
Minnesota -- Social life and customs
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Minnesota -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History
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Europe, Eastern -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History
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Europe, Southern -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- History
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Eastern Europe.
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Southern Europe.
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Minnesota.
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Genre/Form |
History.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0821442244 |
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9780821442241 |
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