New Orleans A Cultural History

Name: New Orleans A Cultural History
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ISBN: 9780195301366

ISBN-10: 0195301366

ISBN-13: 9780195301366

Edition: 2005

Authors: Louise McKinney

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Founded in 1718 by two French-Canadian brothers for French King Louis XIV, New Orleans grew from its roots as a Euro-Caribbean port city at the nexus of North, Central and South America. Situated at the bottom of the Mississippi River Delta, the city became "Paris on the Mississippi," the fashionable cultural capital of the American South, home to America's first opera house and birthplace of jazz. Many think of New Orleans, with its antebellum mansions, above-ground cemeteries and ghostly moss-bearded oaks as a haunted place. It is certainly the most un-American of American cities, creating its own laid-back "Big Easy" attitude from the customs of the people who founded it: French and…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/20/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction


City Afloat


Splendid Decay


"Red Beans and Ricely Yours"



New Orleans People: Gumbo in a Melting-Pot


The First "Creoles"


Neutral Ground


Rich and Poor


A Legacy in Progress


Family Business



River and Riverfront: "Paris on the Mississippi"


River Excursion


Gallatin and People of the Port


Economic Imperative


Jazz Journey: Louis Armstrong


Rue de la Quai/Decatur Street


The Old Mint


Hooked on Caffeine


Cafe du Monde


Market Day


Levee Lore


The Riverbend



The French Quarter: "Splendid Bedlam of a City"


Colonial Crescent


Mississippi Myths


Saints...


...and Sinners


Bourbon Street: Shots and Hot Spots


The Real Beat


"Sahara of the Bozart"?


Sherwood Anderson and The Double Dealer


William Faulkner, "Count No-Count"


Tennessee Williams: "The Bird" Alights


French Quarter Fetes


So Many Lives



Faubourg Treme, Faubourg Marigny and Bywater: Goin' Downtown and "Backa Town"


Shades of Difference


Treme's Territory


The Voodoo Queen


Gumbo Ya-Ya


Armstrong Park


Cities of the Dead


Street Sound


Marigny Remembered


Early Jazzers


R&B Roots


Mo' and More Music



Uptown Haunts


Lafon's Lower Garden District


Facelifts and Jacklifts


St. Mary's Market Gang and the Rest of the Gangs


Pugnacious Ignatius


Suburb Chic


Saturated with Music


End of the Line


Maple on Oak



Mid-City: The New Bohemia


Good Neighbors


Keepers of the Flame


"Fest" Fever


"Fest" Future


Gospel Testifies


Indian Red



Canal Street, Central Business District, and the Warehouse District: Booms and Busts in the "Big Uneasy"


Dreams of "SoHo South"


River Gamblers


Metro Visionaries and New Orleans Ingenuities


Arts District


Chef Super Stars


Southern Repertory and a Cat That's Black


Nouvelle New Orleans



The Lakefront: Crossing the Causeway


Milneburg Joy


Saving the Lake


Across the Causeway



Cajun Country: Lafayette and Beyond


Perrin's Petition


Cross-Country Roadtrip


Chank-a-Chank


"Ragin' Cajuns"


Congres Mondial Acadien



Culture of Celebration: Mardi Gras and Other Spectacles


Capitalizing on Excess


Imperative to Party


Saints Alive!


Pagan Party


Pointe du Mardi Gras


Carnival Time


Mardi Gras Mambo


Mardi Gras Mocked


Mardi Gras Rebirth


Epilogue


Glossary


Further Reading


Index of Literary & Historical Names


Index of Places and Landmarks


Maps


Map of New Orleans District


Map of New Orleans Metro Area


Southern Louisiana