Occupied Bodies, Recognition, and Riot
The Transformation of White Male Popular Culture in Philadelphia, 1785-1850
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.
Ric Caric looks at transformations in white working-class culture in Philadelphia in the decades preceding the Civil War. Considering a wide range of cultural texts songs, diaries, newspaper accounts of workplace leisure, fire company records, medical testimonies, radical political agitation, temperance activism, race riots, and minstrel performances, the author suggests that this time was a period of transformation, particularly in regard to displays and expressions of masculinity.
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Table of Contents
1. Recovering Cultural Transformation
2. Blustering Brags: Processes of Recognition in Traditional Culture
3. Tradition in Motion: The Changing World of Others
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
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
Product details
| Published | 24 Dec 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 368 |
| ISBN | 9781978759428 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 b&w images |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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