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Informationen zum Autor Mary-Ellen Kelm Klappentext A controversial sport, rodeo is often seen as emblematic of the West's reputation as a "white man's country." A Wilder West complicates this view, showing how rodeo has been an important contact zone -- a chaotic and unpredictable place of encounter that challenged expected social hierarchies. Rodeo has brought people together across racial and gender divides, creating friendships, rivalries, and unexpected intimacies. Fans made hometown cowboys, cowgirls, and Aboriginal riders local heroes. Lavishly illustrated and based on cowboy/cowgirl biographies and memoirs, press coverage, archival records, and dozens of interviews with former and current rodeo contestants, promoters, and audience members, this creative history returns to rodeo's small-town roots to shed light on the history of social relations in Canada's western frontier. Zusammenfassung Challenging the well-worn images of rodeo as a white man’s sport, A Wilder West shows how rodeo brought together Aboriginal and settler men and women into relationships of competition and camaraderie, forging new identities and communities in the process. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 An Old-Timers' Town: Western Communities, Performance, and Contact Zones2 Truly Western in Its Character: Identities, Affinities, and Intimacies at Western Canadian Rodeo3 A Sport, Not a Carnival Act: Transforming Rodeo from Performance to Sport4 Heavens No! Let's Keep It Rodeo! Pro Rodeo and the Making of the Modern Cowboy5 Going Pro: Community Rodeo in the Era of Professionalization6 Where the Cowboys Are Indians: Indian and Reserve Rodeo in the Canadian WestConclusionGlossary; Notes; Index
