Occupation Folklore: The Bike Messenger Community: Dichotomies of Work and Resistance

Identifier
2012_003 (local)

Repository
Northern Virginia Folklife Archive at George Mason University

Date
September 21 - December 20 2012 (Date created)

Summary
   Fieldworker discusses with retired bike messenger aspects of the messenger community and his current craft of bicycle frame building. Discusses the occupational group’s values, and its resistance to corporate values as well as its work for corporations.

Creator and/or Contributor
Nichole Procopenko (collector), Fhar Meiss (interviewee)

Language
Dialects)

Materials Designation
digital audio files
digital image files
manuscripts

Part Of
2012: Folk Arts and Folk Artists

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