Riot and Revelry in Early America

by Pencak, William; Dennis, Matthew; Newman, Simon P.

• ISBN13: 9780271022192
• ISBN10: 0271022191
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

Author Biography

William Pencak is Professor of History at Penn State University Matthew Dennis is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon Simon P. Newman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Director of the Andrew Hook Centre for American Studies at the University of Glasgow

Table of Contents

Introductions
Introductions: A Historical Perspective	3	(18)
William Pencak
Introduction: A Folklore Perspective	21	(20)
Roger D. Abrahams
Riot and Rough Music
Skimmington in the Middle and New England Colonies	41	(46)
Steven J. Stewart
The Rise of Rough Music: Reflections on an Ancient New Custom in Eighteenth-Century New Jersey	87	(20)
Brendan McConville
Crowd and Court: Rough Music and Popular Justice in Colonial New York	107	(18)
Thomas J. Humphrey
Play as Prelude to Revolution: Boston, 1765-1776	125	(31)
William Pencak
Rough Music on Independence Day: Philadelphia, 1778	156	(23)
Susan E. Klepp
Revelry
White Indians in Penn's City: The Loyal Sons of St. Tammany	179	(26)
Roger D. Abrahams
The Eighteenth-Century Discovery of Columbus: The Columbian Tercentenary (1792) and the Creation of American National Identity	205	(24)
Matthew Dennis
American Women and the French Revolution: Gender and Partisan Festive Culture in the Early Republic	229	(26)
Susan Branson
Simon P. Newman
African American Festive Style and the Creation of American Culture	255	(18)
William D. Piersen
The Paradox of ``Nationalist'' Festivals: The Case of Palmetto Day in Antebellum Charleston	273	(24)
Len Travers
Contributors and Acknowledgments	297	(2)
Index	299