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- Book Title
- The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture
- Publication Date
- 1992-12-10
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN
- 9780195072433
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019507243X
ISBN-13
9780195072433
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038725589
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Publication Name
Cowboy : Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture
Language
English
Subject
American / General, Customs & Traditions, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Art, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
91-036256
Reviews
"At once provocative and speculative, The Cowboy offers fascinating newapproaches to some of the defining ideas and myths of the American West."--EricJ. Sundquist, Vanderbilt University, "Innovative and solid, Allmendinger throws a graceful rope around cowboy work culture. Rich in documentation, The Cowboy surmounts the idiosyncratic nature of many historical studies by offering a vibrant and realistic portrayal of workers often clouded in myth. Emerging from this sensitivetreatment is a tough, yet dignified, picture of life on the American range."--Keith Gallagher, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Blake Allmendinger has enhanced enormously our perspective on the historical cowboy."--The Western Historical Quarterly, "At once provocative and speculative, The Cowboy offers fascinating new approaches to some of the defining ideas and myths of the American West."--Eric J. Sundquist, Vanderbilt University, "Allmendinger's interdisciplinarity should be applauded, for students of literature, folklore, and popular culture will doubtless find much of value in his work....The Cowboy will appeal to anyone desiring an insightful and frequently entertaining reading of selected cowboy texts."--Journal ofSocial History, "Innovative and solid, Allmendinger throws a graceful rope around cowboywork culture. Rich in documentation, The Cowboy surmounts the idiosyncraticnature of many historical studies by offering a vibrant and realistic portrayalof workers often clouded in myth. Emerging from this sensitive treatment is atough, yet dignified, picture of life on the American range."--Keith Gallagher,University of California, Santa Barbara, "Thought-provoking....Persons wishing a fresh, new perspective on thismost venerated of American symbols will be richly rewarded by reading thisbook."--South Dakota History, "This is a sensitive book by someone who searches deeply for meaning. Hisrecord of that search contains many nuances of meaning in cowboy culture thatshould become a part of broad American culture. The book is therefore ofconsiderable value."--Journal of American Culture, "In this path-breaking work, Allmendinger looks past the colorful cowboy of pulp fiction and film to investigate the equally colorful world that actual cowboys constructed for themselves. By assessing the workaday world of the cowboy with a mixture of exhaustive scholarly knowledge and intellectual brio, he reveals a set of sustaining myths to the stories, songs, and poems that cowboys themselves have written--myths by which they instilled their otherwisemenial work with transcendent meaning and urgency. Branding read as "skin grammar"; livestock castration as a masculinizing activity; square dancing as intense moral drama; the lonesome cowboy as labor'sideal: these and other provocative insights emerge from this wonderfully innovative study--a study that not only gives us the cowboy as a serious cultural and laboring figure, but provides an interdisciplinary model in its combination of folklore, history, popular culture, and literary analysis."--Lee Mitchell, Princeton University"Innovative and solid, Allmendinger throws a graceful rope around cowboy work culture. Rich in documentation, The Cowboy surmounts the idiosyncratic nature of many historical studies by offering a vibrant and realistic portrayal of workers often clouded in myth. Emerging from this sensitive treatment is a tough, yet dignified, picture of life on the American range."--Keith Gallagher, University of California, Santa Barbara"At once provocative and speculative, The Cowboy offers fascinating new approaches to some of the defining ideas and myths of the American West."--Eric J. Sundquist, Vanderbilt University"Blake Allmendinger has enhanced enormously our perspective on the historical cowboy."--The Western Historical Quarterly"Thought-provoking....Persons wishing a fresh, new perspective on this most venerated of American symbols will be richly rewarded by reading this book."--South Dakota History"Well-conceived and welcome."--Western American Literature"This is a sensitive book by someone who searches deeply for meaning. His record of that search contains many nuances of meaning in cowboy culture that should become a part of broad American culture. The book is therefore of considerable value."--Journal of American Culture"This volume by Blake Allmendinger proves again there is no end to fresh ways of examining familiar topics....Uniting provocative insights with interdisciplinary and wide-reaching research, Allmendinger has produced an important study of a subject often smothered in stereotypes, sentimentality, and cliché....All readers will be impressed with the author's broad, varied research. He supplies probing readings of numerous cowboy songs and poems, he useswell new photographs of work scenes and cowboy artistry, and he has scrutinized many important novels by noncowboy authors. And he makes good use of the works of theorists and cultural commentators to broadenthe meaning of his findings....Overall this is a wonderfully suggestive monograph."--American Historical Review"Well worth reading for its fresh and absorbing insights into a particular American work culture."--The Journal of American History"Allmendinger's interdisciplinarity should be applauded, for students of literature, folklore, and popular culture will doubtless find much of value in his work....The Cowboy will appeal to anyone desiring an insightful and frequently entertaining reading of selected cowboy texts."--Journal of Social History"The Cowboy is a solid piece of work that offers an intriguing analysis of an important aspect of American labor history."--Great Plains Quarterly, "Well worth reading for its fresh and absorbing insights into a particular American work culture."--The Journal of American History, "In this path-breaking work, Allmendinger looks past the colorful cowboy of pulp fiction and film to investigate the equally colorful world that actual cowboys constructed for themselves. By assessing the workaday world of the cowboy with a mixture of exhaustive scholarly knowledge andintellectual brio, he reveals a set of sustaining myths to the stories, songs, and poems that cowboys themselves have written--myths by which they instilled their otherwise menial work with transcendent meaning and urgency. Branding read as "skin grammar"; livestock castration as a masculinizingactivity; square dancing as intense moral drama; the lonesome cowboy as labor's ideal: these and other provocative insights emerge from this wonderfully innovative study--a study that not only gives us the cowboy as a serious cultural and laboring figure, but provides an interdisciplinary model inits combination of folklore, history, popular culture, and literary analysis."--Lee Mitchell, Princeton University, "This is a sensitive book by someone who searches deeply for meaning. His record of that search contains many nuances of meaning in cowboy culture that should become a part of broad American culture. The book is therefore of considerable value."--Journal of American Culture, "In this path-breaking work, Allmendinger looks past the colorful cowboyof pulp fiction and film to investigate the equally colorful world that actualcowboys constructed for themselves. By assessing the workaday world of thecowboy with a mixture of exhaustive scholarly knowledge and intellectual brio,he reveals a set of sustaining myths to the stories, songs, and poems thatcowboys themselves have written--myths by which they instilled their otherwisemenial work with transcendent meaning and urgency. Branding read as "skingrammar"; livestock castration as a masculinizing activity; square dancing asintense moral drama; the lonesome cowboy as labor's ideal: these and otherprovocative insights emerge from this wonderfully innovative study--a study thatnot only gives us the cowboy as a serious cultural and laboring figure, butprovides an interdisciplinary model in its combination of folklore, history,popular culture, and literary analysis."--Lee Mitchell, PrincetonUniversity, "Blake Allmendinger has enhanced enormously our perspective on thehistorical cowboy."--The Western Historical Quarterly, "Allmendinger's interdisciplinarity should be applauded, for students ofliterature, folklore, and popular culture will doubtless find much of value inhis work....The Cowboy will appeal to anyone desiring an insightful andfrequently entertaining reading of selected cowboy texts."--Journal of SocialHistory, "This volume by Blake Allmendinger proves again there is no end to fresh ways of examining familiar topics....Uniting provocative insights with interdisciplinary and wide-reaching research, Allmendinger has produced an important study of a subject often smothered in stereotypes,sentimentality, and cliche....All readers will be impressed with the author's broad, varied research. He supplies probing readings of numerous cowboy songs and poems, he uses well new photographs of work scenes and cowboy artistry, and he has scrutinized many important novels by noncowboy authors.And he makes good use of the works of theorists and cultural commentators to broaden the meaning of his findings....Overall this is a wonderfully suggestive monograph."--American Historical Review, "This volume by Blake Allmendinger proves again there is no end to freshways of examining familiar topics....Uniting provocative insights withinterdisciplinary and wide-reaching research, Allmendinger has produced animportant study of a subject often smothered in stereotypes, sentimentality, andcliche....All readers will be impressed with the author's broad, variedresearch. He supplies probing readings of numerous cowboy songs and poems, heuses well new photographs of work scenes and cowboy artistry, and he hasscrutinized many important novels by noncowboy authors. And he makes good use ofthe works of theorists and cultural commentators to broaden the meaning of hisfindings....Overall this is a wonderfully suggestive monograph."--AmericanHistorical Review, "Thought-provoking....Persons wishing a fresh, new perspective on this most venerated of American symbols will be richly rewarded by reading this book."--South Dakota History, "Well worth reading for its fresh and absorbing insights into a particularAmerican work culture."--The Journal of American History
Dewey Edition
20
TitleLeading
The
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
810.9328
Synopsis
What are the connections between cattle branding and Christian salvation, between livestock castration and square dancing, between rustling and the making of spurs and horsehair bridles in prison, between children's coloring books and cowboy poetry as it is practiced today? The Cowboy uses literary, historical, folkloric, and pop cultural sources to document ways in which cowboys address religion, gender, economics, and literature. Arguing that cowboys are defined by the work they do, Allmendinger sets out in each chapter to investigate one form of labor (such as branding, castration, or rustling) that cowboys perform in their "work culture." He then looks at early oral poems that cowboys recited around campfires, on trail drives, at roundups, and at home in their bunkhouses, and at later poems, histories and autobiographies written by cowboys--most of which have never before been studied by scholars. He discovers that these texts not only deal with work but with larger concerns, including art, morality, spirituality, and male sexuality. In addition to spotlighting little-known texts, art, and archival sources, The Cowboy examines the works of Twain, Steinbeck, Cather, Norris, Dana, McMurtry, and others, and features more than 60 historic photographs, many of which have not been published until now., What are the connections between cattle branding and Christian salvation, between livestock castration and square dancing, between rustling and the making of spurs and horsehair bridles in prison, between children's coloring books and cowboy poetry as it is practiced today? The Cowboy uses literary, historical, folkloric, and pop cultural sources to document ways in which cowboys address religion, gender, economics, and literature. Arguing that cowboys aredefined by the work they do, Allmendinger sets out in each chapter to investigate one form of labor (such as branding, castration, or rustling) that cowboys perform in their "work culture." He then looks atearly oral poems that cowboys recited around campfires, on trail drives, at roundups, and at home in their bunkhouses, and at later poems, histories and autobiographies written by cowboys--most of which have never before been studied by scholars. He discovers that these texts not only deal with work but with larger concerns, including art, morality, spirituality, and male sexuality. In addition to spotlighting little-known texts, art, and archival sources, The Cowboy examines the worksof Twain, Steinbeck, Cather, Norris, Dana, McMurtry, and others, and features more than 60 historic photographs, many of which have not been published until now., What are the connections between cattle branding and Christian salvation, between livestock castration and square dancing, between cattle rustling and the making of spurs and horsehair bridles in prison, between children's coloring books and cowboy poetry as it is practiced today? The Cowboy uses literary, historical, folkloric, and pop and cultural sources to document ways in which cowboys address religion, gender, economics, and literature. Arguing that cowboys are defined by the work they do, Allmendinger sets out in each chapter to investigate one form of labor (such as branding, castration, or rustling) in the cowboy's "work culture". He looks at early oral poems recited around campfires, on trail drives, at roundups, and at home in ranch bunkhouses, and at later poems, histories, and autobiographies written by cowboys about their work - most of which have never before received scholarly attention. Allmendinger shows how these texts address larger concerns than the work at hand - including art, morality, spirituality, and male sexuality. In addition to spotlighting little-known texts, art, and archival sources, The Cowboy examines the works of Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Willa Cather, Louis L'Amour, Larry McMurtry, and others. Unique among studies of the American cowboy, Allmendinger's study looks at what cowboys thought of themselves, and the ways in which they represented those thoughts in their own prose, poetry, and artifacts. Richly illustrated with photographs of cowboys at work and at play, many previously unpublished, The Cowboy will interest scholars of American literature and history, and American Studies, as well as those interested in Western history and culture, folklore, and gender studies.
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PS271.A43 1992
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