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Riot and Revelry in Early America ..........................9084$$ $$FM 12-11-0106:21:53 PS ..........................9084$$ $$FM 12-11-0106:21:57 PS Riot and Revelry in Early America ✩ ✩ ✩ edited by William Pencak Matthew Dennis Simon P. Newman The Pennsylvania State University Press University Park, Pennsylvania ..........................9084$$ $$FM 12-11-0106:21:57 PS LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData RiotandrevelryinearlyAmerica/editedby WilliamPencak,MatthewDennis,SimonP.Newman. p. cm. Includesindex. ISBN0-271-02141-1(cloth:alk.paper) ISBN0-271-02219-1(pbk.:alk.paper) 1. Festivals—UnitedStates—History—18thcentury. 2. Parades—United States—History—18thcentury. 3. Riots—UnitedStates—History— 18thcentury. 4. Popularmusic—UnitedStates—History—18thcentury. 5. UnitedStates—Sociallifeandcustoms—To1775. I. Pencak,William,1951– . II. Dennis,Matthew,1955– . III. Newman,SimonP.,1960– . GT4803.C76 2002 394.26973—dc21 2001036462 Copyright(cid:1)2002ThePennsylvaniaStateUniversity Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica PublishedbyThePennsylvaniaStateUniversityPress, UniversityPark,PA16802-1003 ItisthepolicyofThePennsylvaniaStateUniversityPresstouseacid-freepaperfor thefirstprintingofallclothboundbooks.Publicationsonuncoatedstocksatisfythe minimumrequirementsofAmericanNationalStandardforInformation Sciences—PermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials,ANSIZ39.48–1992. Frontispiece:CharlesWillsonPeale,‘‘BenedictArnoldandtheDevil,’’woodcut, 1780.FromFrancisBailey’sTheContinentalAlmanac.CourtesyofTheMetropolitan MuseumofArt,NewYork.BequestofCharlesAllenMunn,1924. In1780,afterGeneralBenedictArnold—whohadformerlycommandedtheAmerican troopsoccupyingPhiladelphia—attemptedtobetrayhisnewpost(WestPoint, NewYork)totheBritish,hewasburnedineffigyinaPhiladelphiaprocession reminiscentofroughmusic.Inthiswoodcut,thedeviltormentsthetwo-facedeffigy asArnoldhimselfisseenfleeingtoaBritishshipinthebackground. ..........................9084$$ $$FM 12-11-0106:21:58 PS ForAlfred F.Young andin memoryof WilliamD. Piersen ..........................9084$$ $$FM 12-11-0106:21:58 PS ..........................9084$$ PRT2 12-11-0106:22:15 PS Contents ✩ Introductions 1 Introduction:AHistoricalPerspective WilliamPencak 3 2 Introduction:AFolklorePerspective RogerD.Abrahams 21 Riot and Rough Music 3 SkimmingtonintheMiddleandNewEnglandColonies StevenJ.Stewart 41 4 TheRiseofRoughMusic:ReflectionsonanAncientNewCustomin Eighteenth-CenturyNewJersey BrendanMcConville 87 5 CrowdandCourt:RoughMusicandPopularJustice in ColonialNew York ThomasJ.Humphrey 107 6 PlayasPreludeto Revolution:Boston,1765–1776 WilliamPencak 125 7 RoughMusiconIndependenceDay:Philadelphia,1778 SusanE.Klepp 156 Revelry 8 White IndiansinPenn’sCity:TheLoyalSons ofSt.Tammany RogerD.Abrahams 179 vii ..........................9084$$ CNTS 12-11-0106:22:01 PS viii Contents 9 TheEighteenth-CenturyDiscovery ofColumbus:TheColumbian Tercentenary(1792)andtheCreationofAmericanNationalIdentity MatthewDennis 205 10 American WomenandtheFrenchRevolution: GenderandPartisan FestiveCultureintheEarlyRepublic SusanBransonandSimonP.Newman 229 11 AfricanAmericanFestiveStyleandtheCreationofAmericanCulture WilliamD.Piersen 255 12 TheParadoxof‘‘Nationalist’’Festivals: TheCase ofPalmettoDay in AntebellumCharleston LenTravers 273 Contributors andAcknowledgments 297 Index 299 ..........................9084$$ CNTS 12-11-0106:22:01 PS ✩ Introductions ✩ ..........................9084$$ PRT1 12-11-0106:22:09 PS
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