David J. Puglia

Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore "Hon" (eBook, PDF)

The Folk in the City

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging "hon" to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture. Each time, controversy followed leading to consequences ranging from protests and boycotts to formal legislative action. "Hon" brought into focus Baltimore's past and future by symbolizing lingering divisions of race, class, gender, and belonging in the midst of campaigns to unify and modernize the city. While some decried "hon" and "the Hon" as embarrassing, others hailed the word and the related image of a down-to-earth, blue-collar woman as emblematic of the authentic Baltimorean. This book tells the story of the battles that flared over the attempts to use "hon" to construct a citywide local tradition and their consequences for the future of local culture in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216292913
• Artikelnr.: 74848126

Autorenporträt

David J. Puglia is assistant professor of English at the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Folk in the City
2. Establishing the City
3. Conjuring the City
4. Performing the City
5. Claiming the City
Conclusion: Renewing and Redeveloping Urban Folklore