All on a Mardi Gras Day : Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival.
Mitchell, Reid.
All on a Mardi Gras Day : Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (265 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- 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.
Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras, the yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast. He tells us some of the most intriguing stories of Carnival since 1804 and he examines the meaning and messages of Mardi Gras.
9780674041172
Carnival-Louisiana-New Orleans-History.
New Orleans (La.)-History.
Electronic books.
GT4211
394.2/5/0976335
All on a Mardi Gras Day : Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (265 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- 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.
Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras, the yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast. He tells us some of the most intriguing stories of Carnival since 1804 and he examines the meaning and messages of Mardi Gras.
9780674041172
Carnival-Louisiana-New Orleans-History.
New Orleans (La.)-History.
Electronic books.
GT4211
394.2/5/0976335