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Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul

By Abrahams , Robert Farris , Roger D.;Spitzer , Nick;Szwed , John F.;Thompson

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780812201000, 0812201000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4525746 bytes)
Series
The City in the Twenty-First Century
Pages
\109
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Carnival;Carnival--Louisiana--New Orleans--History

Description

"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. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Strange Mergers and Deep Mixture Making -- A Festival of Liberation, Protest, Affirmarion, and Celebration -- Carnival Knowledge: Mardi Gras in and Beyond New Orleans -- Carnival Along the Gulf Coast -- Conclusion: Mardi Gras Will Never Die.

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