All on a Mardi Gras Day : Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival.
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- 9780674041172
- 394.2/5/0976335
- GT4211
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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