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

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

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With this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a 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. In All on a Mardi Gras Day Mitchell tells us s...

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Mitchell, Reid,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1995
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (263 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • 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

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