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Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies (Culture America (Hardcover))
de Coleman, Annie Gilbert
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- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Like New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0700613412
- ISBN 13
- 9780700613410
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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Sobre este artículo
University Press of Kansas. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Fine . 6x1x9. Annie Coleman has written the first cultural history of skiing in the United States, telling how this European sport evolved into an American industry combining recreation, tourism, consumption, and wildernessâalong with a solid dose of exhilaration and a dash of celebrity. She reveals how the meaning of skiing changed over the twentieth century, how sport and leisure in America came to be about status and style as much as about physical activity, and how modern consumer culture merged the mythic West with real western places.Coleman traces skiing from its Norse roots and Alpine influences through the utility of ski travel in the winter Rockies to the rise of Colorado resorts. Much more than a history of the sport, her work explains how the recreation industry sold the experience of skiing and created mythic mountain landscapes with real problemsâand a ski culture that exalts celebrity and status over the physical act of skiing.Along the way, Coleman looks at bums, bunnies, betties, and everyone else who uses the sport to define who they are and how they fit in. Todays skiers are more diverse than they were half a century ago (though chances are theyre wealthier), and even snowboarders have joined the very culture they once opposedâreviving places like Aspen through a subversive youth culture gone mainstream.The allure of white powder at high altitudes, manicured ski runs designed to frame picture-perfect views, the illusion of dangerâthe American skiing experience is all of this and more. Extensively researched and engagingly written, Ski Style puts readers on the slopesâand in the lodgesâto show what its really all about.
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- Librería
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- SKU2020022867
- Título
- Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies (Culture America (Hardcover))
- Autor
- Coleman, Annie Gilbert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0700613412
- ISBN 13
- 9780700613410
- Editorial
- University Press of Kansas
- Lugar de publicación
- Lawrence, Ks
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- October 2004
- Tamaño
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 21 oz
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