LEADER 04786nam 22008655 450 001 9910781839303321 005 20230207225107.0 010 $a0-8147-3307-7 010 $a0-8147-3206-2 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814733073 035 $a(CKB)1000000000484995 035 $a(EBL)865484 035 $a(OCoLC)779828094 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107739 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11138527 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107739 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10013566 035 $a(PQKB)11712129 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865484 035 $a(OCoLC)213815447 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10799 035 $a(DE-B1597)547406 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814733073 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000484995 100 $a20200723h20072007 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAuthentic New Orleans $eTourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy /$fKevin Fox Gotham 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2007] 210 4$dİ2007 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-3186-4 311 0 $a0-8147-3185-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 255-269) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1 Introduction --$t2 Processions and Parades --$t3 ?Of Incomprehensible Magnitude and Bewildering Variety? --$t4 Authenticity in Black and White --$t5 Boosting the Big Easy --$t6 From a Culture of Tourism to a Touristic Culture --$t7 A Repertoire of Authenticity --$t8 ?The Greatest Free Show on Earth? --$t9 Conclusion --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aHonorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA?s Community and Urban Sociology Section Mardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter?all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In Authentic New Orleans, Kevin Fox Gotham explains how New Orleans became a tourist town, a spectacular locale known as much for its excesses as for its quirky Southern charm. Gotham begins in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina amid the whirlwind of speculation about the rebuilding of the city and the dread of outsiders wiping New Orleans clean of the grit that made it great. He continues with the origins of Carnival and the Mardi Gras celebration in the nineteenth century, showing how, through careful planning and promotion, the city constructed itself as a major tourist attraction. By examining various image-building campaigns and promotional strategies to disseminate a palatable image of New Orleans on a national scale Gotham ultimately establishes New Orleans as one of the originators of the mass tourism industry?which linked leisure to travel, promoted international expositions, and developed the concept of pleasure travel. Gotham shows how New Orleans was able to become one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States, especially through the transformation of Mardi Gras into a national, even international, event. All the while Gotham is concerned with showing the difference between tourism from above and tourism from below?that is, how New Orleans? distinctiveness is both maximized, some might say exploited, to serve the global economy of tourism as well as how local groups and individuals use tourism to preserve and anchor longstanding communal traditions. 606 $aExhibitions$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xHistory 606 $aCarnival$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xHistory 606 $aCulture and tourism$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xHistory 606 $aTourism$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xHistory 606 $aCity promotion$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xHistory 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xSocial life and customs 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xHistory 610 $aGotham. 610 $aKevin. 610 $aOrleans. 610 $aSouthern. 610 $abecame. 610 $acharm. 610 $aexcesses. 610 $aexplains. 610 $aknown. 610 $alocale. 610 $amuch. 610 $aquirky. 610 $aspectacular. 610 $atourist. 610 $atown. 615 0$aExhibitions$xHistory. 615 0$aCarnival$xHistory. 615 0$aCulture and tourism$xHistory. 615 0$aTourism$xHistory. 615 0$aCity promotion$xHistory. 676 $a306.09763 700 $aGotham$b Kevin Fox$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0473732 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781839303321 996 $aAuthentic New Orleans$9249267 997 $aUNINA