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Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture closely examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what popular culture is and seek to determine whether broad theories of popular culture can explain or make sense of localized instances of popular culture and the cultural experiences of people in their daily lives. Among the many topics covered are local bicycle parades and war memorials, cooking and wine culture, radio and movie-going, music stores and music scenes, tourist s

Popular culture --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Niagara (Ont. : Regional municipality) --- Niagara, Ont. (Regional Municipality) --- Regional Municipality of Niagara (Niagara, Ont.) --- Niagara Region (Ont. : Regional municipality) --- History.

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A detailed study of the history of African Americans in a small upstate New York city from the days of the Underground Railroad to the deindustrialization of the 1980s.

African Americans --- Civil rights. --- Social conditions. --- Niagara Community Center (Niagara Falls, New York) --- History. --- Niagara Falls (N.Y.) --- Race relations --- History

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"Niagara Falls is well known for its rich histories as a geological phenomenon, of awe-inspiring landscape paintings, of spectacular entertainment and curiosities, and of powerful energy reserves. What has received less attention is its value as a source and site of literary exploration and pilgrimage. Niagaras of Ink compiles a vast literary heritage, telling the story of writers who made a significant contribution to the identity and aesthetics of Niagara Falls. Part anthology as much as travel guide, it takes readers of all types to vistas of favorite writers and invites new appreciation of Niagara Falls as character symbol in literary imagination. Jamie M. Carr takes reader-tourists on the journeys of writers, many of whom read and responded to one another's experiences of the Falls. Niagaras of Ink tells stories of those experiences, connecting writers to readers to place"--

American literature --- History and criticism. --- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) --- In literature.

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From factory workers in Welland to retail workers in St. Catharines, from hospitality workers in Niagara Falls to migrant farm workers in Niagara-On-The-Lake, Union Power showcases the role of working people in the Niagara region. Charting the development of the region's labour movement from the early nineteenth century to the present, Patrias and Savage illustrate how workers from this highly diversified economy struggled to improve their lives both inside and outside the workplace. Including extensive quotations from interviews, archival sources, and local newspapers, the story unfolds, in part, through the voices of the people themselves: the workers who fought for unions, the community members who supported them, and the employers who opposed them.

Labor movement -- Ontario -- Niagara Peninsula -- History. --- Labor movement -- Ontario -- Niagara Peninsula. --- Labor unions -- Ontario -- Niagara Peninsula -- History. --- Labor unions -- Ontario -- Niagara Peninsula. --- Labor movement --- Labor unions --- Business & Economics --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- History --- History. --- Industrial unions --- Labor, Organized --- Labor organizations --- Organized labor --- Trade-unions --- Unions, Labor --- Unions, Trade --- Working-men's associations --- Labor and laboring classes --- Societies --- Central labor councils --- Guilds --- Syndicalism --- Social movements --- E-books --- unions --- Labour history --- Niagara --- labour studies

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In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. As with his photographs of the Mississippi, Soth's pictures of Niagara are less about natural wonder than human desire. "I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers," says Soth, "the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion." Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls using a large-format 8x10 camera, the photographs are rigorously composed and richly detailed. Soth depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots and pawn shop wedding rings. Throughout the book, Soth has interspersed a number of love letters from the subjects he photographed. We read about teenage crushes, workplace affairs, heartbreak and suicide. Oscar Wilde wrote of the Falls, "The sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life." In Soth's Niagara, we see both the passion and the disappointment. His pictures are a remarkable portrayal of modern love and its aftermath

Soth, Alec --- Niagara Falls --- Photography, Artistic --- 761.2 fotografen, afzonderlijk --- reportagefotografie (documentaire fotografie) --- Verenigde Staten --- Artistic photography --- Photography --- Photography, Pictorial --- Pictorial photography --- Art --- Aesthetics --- Soth, Alec, --- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) --- Social life and customs