topic:"Rodeos" found 5 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Abstract: In this carefully curated collection of essays, editors Jamie Dopp and Angie Abdou go beyond their first collection, Writing the Body in Motion, to engage with the meaning of sport found in Canadian sport literature. How does 'sport' differ from physically risky recreational activities that require strength and skill? Does sport demand that someone win? At what point does a sport become an art? With the aim of prompting reflections on and discussions of the boundaries of sport, contributors explore how literature engages with sport as a metaphor, as a language, and as bodily expression. Instead of a focus on what is often described as Canada's national pastime, contributors examine sports in Canadian literature that are decidedly not hockey. From skateboarding and parkour to fly fishing and curling, these essays engage with Canadian histories and broader societal understandings through sports on the margin. Interspersed with original reflections by iconic Canadian literary figures such as Steven Heighton, Aritha Van Herk, Thomas Wharton, and Timothy Taylor, this volume is fresh and intriguing and offers new ways of reading the body. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Niche Sports and Subcultures: Non-commercial Experiences -- 1 "All Lithe Power and Confidence": Skateboarding in Michael Christie's If I Fall, If I Die -- Burn the Scoreboards: Michael Christie on Skateboarding and Olympic Sport -- 2 Olympic Athletes Versus Parkour Artists: Sport, Art, and the Critique of Celebrity Culture in Timothy Taylor's The Blue Light Project -- On The Blue Light Project -- 3 Covering Distance, Coming of Age, and Communicating Subculture: David Carroll's Young Adult Sports Novel Ultra -- 4 Out of the Ordinary: Curling in The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon and Men with Brooms -- Part II: Colonialism and Nature -- 5 Sporting Mountain Voice: Alpinism and (Neo)colonial Discourse in Thomas Wharton's Icefields and Angie Abdou's The Canterbury Trail -- "Climbing It with Your Mind" -- 6 A "Most Enthusiastic Sportsman Explorer": Warburton Pike in The Barren Ground -- 7 Getting Away from It All, or Breathing It All In: Decolonizing Wilderness Adventure Stories -- Part III: Gender, Race, and Class -- 8 "Maggie's Own Sphere": Fly Fishing and Ecofeminism in Ethel Wilson's Swamp Angel -- 9 "Don't Expect Rodeo to Be a Sweet Sport": Ambiguity, Spectacle, and Cowgirls in Aritha van Herk's Stampede and the Westness of West -- Contention, On Rodeo -- 10 Immigration, Masculinity, and Olympic-Style Weightlifting in David Bezmozgis's "The Second Strongest Man" -- Weightlifting, Humour, and the Writer's Sensibility -- 11 "It All Gets Beaten Out of You": Poverty, Boxing, and Writing in Steven Heighton's The Shadow Boxer -- On Boxing -- 12 Turn It Upside Down: Race and Representation in Sport, Sport Literature, and Sport Lit Scholarship.

ISBN: 9781771993777

Accession Number: P2024.02

Call Number: 08.1 Ab3n

Collection: Archives Library

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Official program : eight annual world series rodeo : for the championships of 1933

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1933

Author: Johnson, Col. W. T.

Publisher: New York : World Series Rodeio

Call Number: 08.2 J62o Pam

Author: Johnson, Col. W. T.

Responsibility: Col. W. T. Johnson

Publisher: New York : World Series Rodeio

Published Date: 1933

Physical Description: 48 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Rodeos; Horses; Cowboys

Abstract: Pertains to the official program for the eighth annual World Series Rodeo. The championship events were held in Madison Square Garden, New York. Topics discussed in the publication include, but are not limited to, calf-roping, rodeos, horseback riding, cowboys, steer riding, bareback riding, roping and cow milking.

Accession Number: 3069 a

Call Number: 08.2 J62o Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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"Ride'er Cowboy" at Jasper

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1926

Call Number: 13.114 J31b Pam oversize

Published Date: 1926

Physical Description: p.43 : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Brewster family; Outfitters, trail guides, packers; Rodeos

Notes: In Canadian National Railways magazine, vol.XII, no.8

Accession Number: 320

Call Number: 13.114 J31b Pam oversize

Collection: Archives Library

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