Authentic New Orleans : tourism, culture, and race in the Big Easy

Authentic New Orleans tourism, culture, and race in the Big Easy

Authentic New Orleans : an introduction -- Processions and parades : Carnival krewes and the development of modern Mardi Gras -- "Of incomprehensible magnitude and bewildering variety" : the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition -- Authenticity in black and white :...

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1. Verfasser: Gotham, Kevin Fox (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. New York University Press 2007
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City promotion > History > Tourism > Culture and tourism > Carnival > Exhibitions > New Orleans > Tourismus > Kultur > Rassenbeziehung > Louisiana > New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs > New Orleans, La. > Ethnische Beziehungen
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Zusammenfassung:Authentic New Orleans : an introduction -- Processions and parades : Carnival krewes and the development of modern Mardi Gras -- "Of incomprehensible magnitude and bewildering variety" : the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition -- Authenticity in black and white : the rise of tourism in the twentieth century -- Boosting the Big Easy : New Orleans goes global -- From a culture of tourism to a touristic culture : the 1984 Louisiana Exposition and the holy trinity of New Orleans tourism -- A repertoire of authenticity : contested space and transformation of the French Quarter -- "The greatest free show on earth" : intimations and antinomies of commodification and carnival -- Conclusion: The future of New Orleans
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 255 - 269
Beschreibung:XIII, 281 S.
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ISBN:0814731856
0-8147-3185-6
0814731864
0-8147-3186-4
9780814731857
978-0-8147-3185-7
9780814731864
978-0-8147-3186-4