Blues for New Orleans : Mardi Gras and America's Creole soul / Roger D. Abrahams [and others]
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important Ame...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | City in the twenty-first century book series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.