Culture after the hurricanes [[electronic resource] ] : rhetoric and reinvention on the Gulf Coast / / edited by M.B. Hackler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459368803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, c2010
• ISBN: 1-62103-254-X; 1-282-91729-3; 9786612917295; 1-60473-491-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HacklerM. B
• Disciplina: 306.0976
• Soggetti: Cultural industries - Louisiana; Cultural industries - Gulf States; Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - Social aspects; Hurricane Rita, 2005 - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: "Louisiana's New Oil": Planning for Culture on the New Gulf Coast; CHAPTER 1 Civic Culture and the Politics of Planning for Neighborhoods and Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans; CHAPTER 2 New Orleans Shotgun: A Historic Cultural Geography; CHAPTER 3 Soul Food: Katrina and the Culinary Arts; CHAPTER 4 Making Groceries: Food, Neighborhood Markets, and Neighborhood Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans; CHAPTER 5 Losing Ground: The Cultural Politics of Cultural Landscapes in Plaquemines Parish; CHAPTER 6 Hurricane Rita and the New Normal: Modified Communication and New Traditions in Calcasieu and Cameron ParishesCONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited from immediate attention and funding while others, with equal cases for assistance but with less attraction to future tourist ; dollars, languished. New Orleans and its surroundings contain a diverse mixture of Native Americans, African Americans, Creoles, Cajuns, Isleños with roots in the Canary Islands, and the descendants of Italian, Irish, English, Croatian, and German immigrants, among others. Since 2005 much is now different for the people of the