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Mardi Gras Beads /
"Beads are one of the great Crescent City symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or a jazzman's trumpet. They are New Orleans's version of the Hawaiian lei, strung around tourists and conventioneers' necks to demonstrate their enthusiasm for the cit...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- It's carnival time
- The arms race
- Bohemia, the costume jewelry capital of the world
- The booming bead business
- Show me something, mister... or miss
- Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and the identity politics of beads
- Eye contact, bad behavior, and tragedy
- More and longer.