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Occupied Bodies, Recognition, and Riot

The Transformation of White Male Popular Culture in Philadelphia, 1785-1850

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Occupied Bodies, Recognition, and Riot

The Transformation of White Male Popular Culture in Philadelphia, 1785-1850

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Occupied Bodies, Recognition, and Riot is a study of the transition from traditional popular culture to the first forms of industrial popular culture among the white working population of Philadelphia. Building from a focus on ambivalent masculinity, the book argues that traditional culture was animated by apprehensions concerning male bodies and that the anxieties and pain associated with the representation of male bodies drove the dramatic transformation of Philadelphia popular culture after 1825.

Table of Contents

Part I: Traditional Culture
1. Questions of Cultural Transformation
2. Blustering Brags: Processes of Recognition in Traditional Culture
3. Tradition in Motion: The Changing World of Others
Part II: Cultural Failure
4. Citizens and Anti-Citizens: The Early Working Men
5. The General Strike of 1835: The Rise and Fall of the Trades Union
6. An Epidemic of Hallucination: Delirium Tremens and Cultural Failure
Part III: Cultural Transformation
7. Comic Substance: Blackface Minstrelsy During the 1830's
8. The Experience Speech: Washingtonian Temperance in Philadelphia
9. The Rioting Body: Violent Fire Companies, Identity, and Trauma
10. Festivals of Racial Suffering: The Blackface Bands
11. Moving Quickly: Early Permutations of the New Culture
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 01 May 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 368
ISBN 9781666926729
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Ric N. Caric

Ric N. Caric is Emeritus Professor of Internationa…

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