Blues for New Orleans : Mardi Gras and America's Creole soul /
Imprint: | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006. |
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Description: | 102 p. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | The City in the twenty-first century City in the twenty-first century book series. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5882762 |
Summary: | 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 American vernacular arts took shape. Creativity fostered jazz music, made of old parts and put together in utterly new ways; architecture that commingled Norman rooflines, West African floor plans, and native materials of mud and moss; food that simmered African ingredients in French sauces with Native American delicacies. There is no more powerful celebration of this happy gumbo of life in New Orleans than Mardi Gras. In Carnival, music is celebrated along the city's spiderweb grid of streets, as all classes and cultures gather for a festival that is organized and chaotic, individual and collective, accepted and licentious, sacred and profane. |
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Physical Description: | 102 p. ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: | 9780812239591 0812239598 (alk. paper) |