Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Del Negro, Giovanna.

Title The passeggiata and popular culture in an Italian town : folklore and the performance of modernity / Giovanna P. Del Negro.

Publication Info. Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2004]
©2004

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178) and index.
Contents "Our Little Paris" -- Modernity in Folklore, Social Thought, and the Field Encounter -- Light Industry and Accordions: Representations of Contemporary Sassano Identity -- Miracle, the Blonde, and the Prostitutes: Gender and Social Change in Sassano Discourse -- Seeing and Being Seen in the Sassano Passeggiata -- Our Modernity.
Summary "[A]n evocative account of social life in the central Italian town of Sasso. Focusing on the passeggiata (ritual promenade), Del Negro provides a vivid picture of dressing, walking, courting, and socializing in Sasso's piazza."--Jacket.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Folklore -- Italy -- Abruzzo.
Folklore.
Italy -- Abruzzo.
Plazas -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Abruzzo.
Plazas -- Social aspects.
Plazas.
Walking -- Italy -- Abruzzo.
Walking.
Popular culture -- Italy -- Abruzzo.
Popular culture.
Abruzzo (Italy) -- Social life and customs.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Passeggiata
Other Form: Print version: Del Negro, Giovanna. Passeggiata and popular culture in an Italian town. Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2004478416
ISBN 9780773571990 (electronic book)
077357199X (electronic book)
9780773527225
0773527222