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Outriders: rodeo at the fringes of the American West
| Title | Outriders: rodeo at the fringes of the American West |
| Names | Scofield, Rebecca. |
| Book Number | DBC19201 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Books |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | This study of rodeo life focuses on groups not always associated with this dangerous sport: women, people of color, and gay folks. Their reasons for participating in rodeo life reflects how their roles in society are viewed. Adult. Unrated. |
| General Notes | Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. |
| Local Notes | "This book examines how (and why) rodeo has provided diverse communities ways in which they can prove themselves as real Americans, real men, and real heroes, often through the enactment of ever-shifting concepts like authenticity, tradition, and heritage. The author analyzes how the space of the rodeo arena has exposed fractures in the narrative of the cowboy over the twentieth century, focusing particularly on the experiences of non-normative cowboys and cowgirls to demonstrate how people stripped of their place in a collectively imagined Western past have both challenged and reinforced the cowboy as an icon of American authenticity. The case studies include female bronc-riders in the 1910s and 1920s, convict cowboys in the mid-twentieth century, all-black rodeos in the 1960s and 1970s, and gay rodeoers in the late century. Cast out of popular Western mythology and pushed to the fringes in everyday life, these people found belonging and meaning at the rodeo, staking a claim to national inclusion through regional performance. Yet, alongside their challenges to the restrictive definition of the cowboy, they also contributed to the persistent idea of an authentic Western identity"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Narrator | Schlosser, Mary. |
| Length | 13 hours, 28 minutes |
| Local Subject | Outdoor activities - SP3 |
| Sports and recreation - SP | |
| Civil rights and equality - SO10 | |
| U.S. History - HI1 | |
| LGBTQIA+ - LGB | |
| Adult book - AD | |
| Nonfiction - NF | |
| Produced at WTBBL - PAW | |
| LC Subject | Cowboys - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century |
| Cowgirls - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century |
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| Minorities - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century |
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| Rodeo performers - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century |
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| Rodeos - Social aspects - West (U.S.) - History - 20th century |
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| West (U.S.) - Social conditions - 20th century |
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| Nonfiction |
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| Audience Notes | A NLS/BPH |
| Call Number | 791.8 ANF |
| Language | English |
| Contents | Introduction: Rodeo and the outriders of history -- Coiffeuse to cowgirl : pioneering and the performance of Western womanhood -- Restorative brutality : violence and social salvation at the Texas Prison Rodeo -- History unedited : black rodeo, progress, and the performance of heritage -- Camp and the cowboy : the serious fun of gay rodeo -- Conclusion: Performance and embodied epistemologies. |
| Released | 2019 |
| Publication Info | Seattle : University of Washington Press 2019 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019] 9780295746777 |
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