All on a Mardi Gras day : episodes in the history of New Orleans Carnival /

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In this study, Reid Mitchell takes the reader to Mardi Gras - a yearly ritual that sweeps the multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mitchell, Reid
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1995.
Sujets:
Carnival > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Carnavals > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Carnival
Karneval
New Orleans (La.) > History.
La Nouvelle-Orléans (Louis.) > Histoire.
Louisiana > New Orleans
Carnivals > History
Louisiana
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Creoles and Americans
  • 2. African-Creoles
  • 3. Americans and Immigrants
  • 4. Rex
  • 5. Comus
  • 6. Northerners
  • 7. High Society
  • 8. Mardi Gras Indians
  • 9. Mardi Gras Queens
  • 10. Louis Armstrong's Mardi Gras
  • 11 . New Orleanians
  • 12. Zulu
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliographic Note
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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