TY - BOOK AU - Abrahams,Roger AU - Spitzer,Nick AU - Szwed,John F. AU - Thompson,Robert Farris TI - Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul T2 - The City in the Twenty-First Century Series SN - 9780812201000 AV - GT4211.N4 -- B58 2006eb U1 - 394.2509763/35 PY - 2006/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Carnival-Louisiana-New Orleans-History KW - Creoles-Louisiana-New Orleans-History KW - New Orleans (La.)-History KW - New Orleans (La.)-Social life and customs KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Strange Mergers and Deep Mixture Making -- The Spanish Tinge, Second-Line, and the Black Atlantic Origins of Jazz -- A Festival of Liberation, Protest, Affirmation, and Celebration -- Carnival Knowledge: Mardi Gras in and Beyond New Orleans -- Carnival Along the Gulf Coast -- Conclusion: Mardi Gras Will Never Die N2 - "A furious, blues-tinged, erudite hymn to our greatest vernacular city. Read it and weep; read it and rejoice!"--Edward Hirsch, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3441583 ER -