Covering Niagara: studies in local popular culture

by Grant, Barry Keith Nicks, Joan

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Full title :Covering Niagara : studies in local popular culture / Joan Nicks and Barry Keith Grant, editors.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Place of Publication:Waterloo, Ont
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2010.

Notes

Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 23 juin 2011).

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (1 texte électronique (xxx, 376 p.)) : : ill. (certaines en coul.), cartes, portr., fichiers HTMl.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781554582471, 1554582474
oclc:ocn755956878
LC Classification:F1059.N5
Dewey Decimal:971.3/38

Part I Public Showings -- Polite Athletics and Bourgeois Gaieties: Toronto Society in Late Victorian Niagara-on-the-Lake -- A Promise Set in Stone: St. Catharines Honours a Common Soldier -- Niagara Falls Indian Village: Popular Productions of Cultural Difference -- Part II Movies and Media -- Early Movie-Going in Niagara: From Itinerant Shows to Local Institutions, 1896-1910 -- "Hollywoodization, " Gender, and the Local Press in the 1920s: The Case of Niagara Falls, Ontario -- Where Is the Local in Local Radio?: The Changing Shape of Radio Programming in St. Catharines -- Part III Food and Drink -- Frolics with Food: The Frugal Housewife's Manual by "A.B. of Grimsby" -- "A Little More Than a Drink": Public Drinking and Popular Entertainment in Post-Prohibition Niagara, 1927-1944 -- Niagara's Emerging Wine Culture: From a Countryside of Production to Consumption -- Part IV Local Connections -- "Kenny-ing": Kenny Wheeler and Local Jazz -- The Music Store as a Community Resource -- Back to Our Roots: How Niagara Artists Centre Became Popular Again -- Part V Borderline Matters -- Entertaining Niagara Falls: Minstrel Shows, Theatres, and Popular Pleasures -- Electricity from Niagara F…

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