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Author Del Negro, Giovanna

Title The passeggiata and popular culture in an Italian town : folklore and the performance of modernity / Giovanna P. Del Negro
Published Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 183 pages) : illustrations
Contents "Our Little Paris" -- Modernity in Folklore, Social Thought, and the Field Encounter -- Light Industry and Accordions: Representations of Contemporary Sassano Identity -- The 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178) and index
Notes English
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Subject Folklore -- Italy -- Abruzzo
Plazas -- Social aspects -- Italy -- Abruzzo
Walking -- Italy -- Abruzzo
Popular culture -- Italy -- Abruzzo
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
Folklore
Manners and customs
Plazas -- Social aspects
Popular culture
Walking
Places -- Italie -- Abruzzo.
Culture populaire -- Italie -- Abruzzo.
Abruzzo (Italy) -- Social life and customs
Italy -- Abruzzo
Abruzzo (Italie) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773571990
077357199X
1282861921
9781282861923
9786612861925
6612861924
Other Titles Passeggiata