Authentic New Orleans : tourism, culture, and race in the Big Easy /

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Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA's Community and Urban Sociology Section. Mardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter--all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In Authentic New Orleans, Kevin Fox Gotham...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gotham, Kevin Fox (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
City promotion > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Tourism > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Culture and tourism > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Carnival > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Exhibitions > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Villes > Marketing > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire.
Tourisme > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire.
Carnavals > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire.
Expositions internationales > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire.
Ethnotourisme > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire.
Expositions > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Carnival
City promotion
Culture and tourism
Exhibitions
Manners and customs
Tourism
Stadtentwicklung
Tourismus
New Orleans (La.) > History.
New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs.
La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louis.) > Moeurs et coutumes.
Louisiana > New Orleans
New Orleans, La.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : authentic New Orleans
  • Processions and parades : Carnival krewes and the development of modern Mardi Gras
  • "Of incomprehensible magnitude and bewildering variety" : the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition
  • Authenticity in black and white : the rise of tourism in the twentieth century
  • Boosting the Big Easy : New Orleans goes global
  • From a culture of tourism to a touristic culture : the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition and the holy trinity of New Orleans tourism
  • A repertoire of authenticity : contested space and transformation of the French Quarter
  • "The greatest free show on earth" : intimations and antinomies of commodification and Carnival
  • Conclusion : the future of New Orleans.

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