Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore &quote;Hon&quote; (eBook)

The Folk in the City

David J. Puglia (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
190 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-5110-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book tells the story of the battles that flared over Baltimore’s attempts to use “hon” to construct a citywide local tradition and their consequences for the future of local culture in the United States.

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Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging ';hon' to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture. Each time, controversy followed leading to consequences ranging from protests and boycotts to formal legislative action. ';Hon' brought into focus Baltimore's past and future by symbolizing lingering divisions of race, class, gender, and belonging in the midst of campaigns to unify and modernize the city. While some decried ';hon' and ';the Hon' as embarrassing, others hailed the word and the related image of a down-to-earth, blue-collar woman as emblematic of the authentic Baltimorean. This book tells the story of the battles that flared over the attempts to use ';hon' to construct a citywide local tradition and their consequences for the future of local culture in the United States.

Autor

David J. Puglia is assistant professor of English at the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York

Inhalt

1. The Folk in the City2. Establishing the City3. Conjuring the City4. Performing the City5. Claiming the CityConclusion: Renewing and Redeveloping Urban Folklore

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities
• Zusatzinfo: 11 Illustrations including: - 2 Black & White Illustrations; - 9 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: authenticity • Baltimore • Consumer Culture • Festival • Folk speech • Intellectual Property • invented tradition • Local identity • Nostalgia • urban folklore • Vernacular
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-5110-6 / 1498551106
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-5110-6 / 9781498551106