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All on a Mardi Gras Day : Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674041172
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: All on a Mardi Gras DayDDC classification:
  • 394.2/5/0976335
LOC classification:
  • GT4211
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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