Author: Celestine M. ChambonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The St. Louis Cathedral and Its Neighbors
Author: Celestine M. ChambonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Cathedral Church of Bayeux, and Other Historical Relics in Its Neighborhood
Author: Robert Scott MylneAppleton's Dictionary of Greater New York and Its Neighborhood
Author: Creating the Big Easy
Author: Anthony J. StanonisPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820341584
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination. Anthony J. Stanonis tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism industry and, along the way, fundamentally changed the city's cultural, economic, racial, and gender structure. Stanonis looks at the importance of urban development, historic preservation, taxation strategies, and convention marketing to New Orleans' makeover and chronicles the city's efforts to domesticate its jazz scene, "democratize" Mardi Gras, and stereotype local blacks into docile, servile roles. He also looks at depictions of the city in literature and film and gauges the impact on New Orleans of white middle-class America's growing prosperity, mobility, leisure time, and tolerance of women in public spaces once considered off-limits. Visitors go to New Orleans with expectations rooted in the city's "past": to revel with Mardi Gras maskers, soak up the romance of the French Quarter, and indulge in rich cuisine and hot music. Such a past has a basis in history, says Stanonis, but it has been carefully excised from its gritty context and scrubbed clean for mass consumption.
The Living Church
Author: The Regional Review
Author: United States. National Park Service. Region OnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National parks and reserves
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Voodoo Queen
Author: Martha WardPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1604734817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and daughter of the same name. Both were legendary leaders of religious and spiritual traditions many still label as evil. The Laveaus were free women of color and prominent French-speaking Catholic Creoles. From the 1820s until the 1880s when one died and the other disappeared, gossip, fear, and fierce affection swirled about them. From the heart of the French Quarter, in dance, drumming, song, and spirit possession, they ruled the imagination of New Orleans. How did the two Maries apply their “magical” powers and uncommon business sense to shift the course of love, luck, and the law? The women understood the real crime—they had pitted their spiritual forces against the slave system of the United States. Moses-like, they led their people out of bondage and offered protection and freedom to the community of color, rich white women, enslaved families, and men condemned to hang. The curse of the Laveau family, however, followed them. Both loved men they could never marry. Both faced down the press and police who stalked them. Both countered the relentless gossip of curses, evil spirits, murders, and infant sacrifice with acts of benevolence. The book is also a detective story—who is really buried in the famous tomb in the oldest “city of the dead” in New Orleans? What scandals did the Laveau family intend to keep buried there forever? By what sleight of hand did free people of color lose their cultural identity when Americans purchased Louisiana and imposed racial apartheid upon Creole creativity? Voodoo Queen brings the improbable testimonies of saints, spirits, and never-before-printed eyewitness accounts of ceremonies and magical crafts together to illuminate the lives of the two Marie Laveaus, leaders of a major, indigenous American religion.
American Architecture: 1607-1860
Author: Marcus WhiffenPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262730693
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The first volume of a two-volume survey of American Architecture, this book covers architectural developments from Jamestown to the Civil War.
The St. Louis Cathedral of New Orleans
Author: T. P. ThompsonTime and Place in New Orleans
Author: Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 145561310X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description