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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
Description:	102 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The City in the twenty-first century City in the twenty-first century book series.
Subject:	Carnival -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History. Creoles -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History. Carnival. Creoles. Manners and customs. New Orleans (La.) -- History. New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs. Louisiana -- New Orleans. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5882762

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Other authors / contributors:	Abrahams, Roger D.
ISBN:	9780812239591 0812239598 (alk. paper)

Table of Contents:

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.