Why Run Mardi Gras
Author | : Jackie Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-01-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781732436695 |
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Author | : Jackie Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-01-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781732436695 |
Author | : Carolyn Ware |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252073770 |
How Cajun women have creatively refashioned the tradition of rural Mardi Gras runs
Author | : Carolyn E. Ware |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2024-03-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252056450 |
Cajun Women and Mardi Gras is the first book to explore the importance of women’s contributions to the country Cajun Mardi Gras tradition, or Mardi Gras “run.” Most Mardi Gras runs--masked begging processions through the countryside, led by unmasked capitaines--have customarily excluded women. Male organizers explain that this rule protects not only the tradition’s integrity but also women themselves from the event’s rowdy, often drunken, play. Throughout the past twentieth century, and especially in the past fifty years, women in some prairie communities have insisted on taking more active and public roles in the festivities. Carolyn E. Ware traces the history of women’s participation as it has expanded from supportive roles as cooks and costume makers to increasingly public performances as Mardi Gras clowns and (in at least one community) capitaines. Drawing on more than a decade of fieldwork interviews and observation in Mardi Gras communities, Ware focuses on the festive actions in Tee Mamou and Basile to reveal how women are reshaping the celebration as creative artists and innovative performers.
Author | : Dianne De Las Casas |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1455616680 |
Dinosaurs parade down the streets of New Orleans during the Mardi Gras carnival. Includes glossary and related craft activity.
Author | : Carolyn Elizabeth Ware |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Carnival |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kim Marie Vaz |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2013-01-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 080715072X |
One of the first women's organizations to mask and perform during Mardi Gras, the Million Dollar Baby Dolls redefined the New Orleans carnival tradition. Tracing their origins from Storyville-era brothels and dance halls to their re-emergence in post-Katrina New Orleans, author Kim Marie Vaz uncovers the fascinating history of the "raddy-walking, shake-dancing, cigar-smoking, money-flinging" ladies who strutted their way into a predominantly male establishment. The Baby Dolls formed around 1912 as an organization of African American women who used their profits from working in New Orleans's red-light district to compete with other Black prostitutes on Mardi Gras. Part of this event involved the tradition of masking, in which carnival groups create a collective identity through costuming. Their baby doll costumes -- short satin dresses, stockings with garters, and bonnets -- set against a bold and provocative public behavior not only exploited stereotypes but also empowered and made visible an otherwise marginalized female demographic. Over time, different neighborhoods adopted the Baby Doll tradition, stirring the creative imagination of Black women and men across New Orleans, from the downtown Trem area to the uptown community of Mahalia Jackson. Vaz follows the Baby Doll phenomenon through one hundred years with photos, articles, and interviews and concludes with the birth of contemporary groups, emphasizing these organizations' crucial contribution to Louisiana's cultural history.
Author | : Carl Lindahl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780878059683 |
A study of Cajun Mardi Gras and its traditional mask making
Author | : James Gill |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Carnival |
ISBN | : 9781604736380 |
"Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celerated Carnival since its days as a French and Spanish colonial outpost, the rituals familiar today were largely established in the Civil War era by a white male elite." -- back cover.
Author | : Joanna Ponto |
Publisher | : Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2015-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0766074544 |
Young readers will learn all about the culture, history, and celebrations of Mardi Gras. From costumes to carnivals and music, students will want to revel in the festivities. Students can make gumbo according to the recipe in the book, as well as create a Mardi Gras mask to celebrate!
Author | : Couvillon, Alice |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781455608881 |
Mimi visits her cousin Jean-Paul during the celebration of Cajun Mardi Gras in Louisiana.