LEADER 04372nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910807738603321 005 20230208172904.0 010 $a0-674-04117-8 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674041172 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786827 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050808 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101273 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11124524 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101273 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10042672 035 $a(PQKB)11584046 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300191 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314198 035 $a(OCoLC)923110114 035 $a(DE-B1597)590400 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674041172 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300191 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786827 100 $a19940610d1995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAll on a Mardi Gras day $eepisodes in the history of New Orleans Carnival /$fReid Mitchell 210 1$aCambridge, Mass :$cHarvard University Press,$d1995. 215 $a1 online resource (243 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aOriginally published: 1995. 311 0 $a0-674-01622-X 311 0 $a0-674-01623-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 205-208) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Creoles and Americans --$t2. African-Creoles --$t3. Americans and Immigrants --$t4. Rex --$t5. Comus --$t6. Northerners --$t7. High Society --$t8. Mardi Gras Indians --$t9. Mardi Gras Queens --$t10. Louis Armstrong's Mardi Gras --$t11 . New Orleanians --$t12. Zulu --$tEpilogue --$tBibliographic Note --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aIn this study, Reid Mitchell takes the reader to Mardi Gras - a yearly ritual that sweeps the multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast. 330 $bWith this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast. In All on a Mardi Gras Day Mitchell tells us some of the most intriguing stories of Carnival since 1804. Woven into his narrative are observations of the meaning and messages of Mardi Gras--themes of unity, exclusion, and elitism course through these tales as they do through the Crescent City. Moving through the decades, Mitchell describes the city's diverse cultures coming together to compete in Carnival performances. We observe powerful social clubs, or krewes, designing their elaborate parade displays and extravagant parties; Creoles and Americans in conflict over whose dances belong in the ballroom; enslaved Africans and African Americans preserving a sense of their heritage in processions and dances; white supremacists battling Reconstruction; working-class blacks creating the flamboyant Krewe of Zulu; the birth and reign of jazz; the gay community holding lavish balls; and of course tourists purchasing an authentic experience according to the dictates of our commercial culture. Interracial friction, nativism, Jim Crow separatism, the hippie movement--Mitchell illuminates the expression of these and other American themes in events ranging from the 1901 formation of the anti-prohibitionist Carrie Nation Club to the controversial 1991 ordinance desegregating Carnival parade krewes. Through the conflicts, Mitchell asserts, "I see in Mardi Gras much what I hear in a really good jazz band: a model for the just society, the joyous community, the heavenly city...A model for community where individual expression is the basis for social harmony and where continuity is the basis for creativity." All on a Mardi Gras Day journeys into a world where hope persists for a rare balance between diversity and unity. 606 $aCarnival$zLouisiana$zNew Orleans$xHistory 607 $aNew Orleans (La.)$xHistory 615 0$aCarnival$xHistory. 676 $a394.250976335 700 $aMitchell$b Reid$0283366 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807738603321 996 $aAll on a Mardi Gras day$94064610 997 $aUNINA