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Author Rotella, Carlo, 1964-

Title Good with their hands : boxers, bluesmen, and other characters from the Rust Belt / Carlo Rotella
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 269 pages)
Contents Truth and beauty in the Rust Belt -- The culture of the hands -- Too many notes -- Grittiness -- Rocky Marciano's ghost -- Getting there
Summary This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women's boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy Guy and the blues scene in Chicago; police work and crime stories in New York City, especially as they converged in the making of the movie The French Connection; and attempts at urban renewal in the classic mill city of Brockton, Massachusetts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject City and town life -- United States -- Case studies
Deindustrialization -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
Work -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
Social change -- United States -- Case studies
Creative ability -- United States -- Case studies
Boxing -- United States -- Case studies
Blues (Music) -- Case studies
Police films -- United States -- Case studies
Landscape design -- United States -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Creative ability
Blues (Music)
Boxing
City and town life
Deindustrialization -- Social aspects
Landscape design
Manners and customs
Police films
Social change
Work -- Social aspects
SUBJECT United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140543
Subject United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021696608
ISBN 9780520938441
0520938445
9780520225626
1597346403
9781597346405
9786612358029
6612358025
0520225627