Bon Temps
Title | Bon Temps PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Haller |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-10-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780999273999 |
New Orleans has long been associated with Mardi Gras, but in Alabama, we don't care to play second fiddle. Mobilians proudly claim to have established the country's first Mardi Gras traditions dating back to the 1830s. Mardi Gras here is a month-long, glitter-and-gold-leaf, gumbo-fixin', celebrity-impersonating, waiting-in-the-wings, spotlit, alcohol-swamped, gimme-sumthin-Mister, drum-rolling, siren-wailing, shoulder-to-shoulder blowout. In Bon Temps: Alabama's Mardi Gras, photographers Jeff and Meggan Haller bring Alabama's premier cultural tradition to the world. Mobile's Mardi Gras is a celebration of excess preceding the fasting and penitence of Lent. It culminates on Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of the Lenten season. Today's Mardi Gras is an economic bonanza accommodating hundreds of thousands of revelers over three weeks of parades, balls, and partying. With dozens of mystic societies, traditions run deep. It's so old that you may think you've seen it all, but in Jeff and Meggan Haller's collection of sometimes shocking, sometimes silly, always vivid images, and essays by Eleanor Inge Baker, we're confident you'll discover something new. Casebound in linen with foil-embossed cover and marbled endsheets, Bon Temps: Alabama's Mardi Gras honors Mobile's tradition of over-the-top frivolity. As the slogan goes, Mobile's a city born to celebrate.
Mardi Gras in Alabama
Title | Mardi Gras in Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Karyn Tunks |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2018-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781941879221 |
Mardi Gras
Title | Mardi Gras PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Ponto |
Publisher | Enslow Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | 32 |
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!
Mardi Gras in Mobile
Title | Mardi Gras in Mobile PDF eBook |
Author | L. Craig Roberts |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | 203 |
Release | 2015-01-12 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1625852517 |
Mardi Gras in Mobile began its carnival celebration years before the city of New Orleans was founded. In the 1700s, mystic societies formed in Mobile, such as the Societe de Saint Louis, believed to be the first in the New World. These curious organizations brought old-world traditions as they held celebrations like parades and balls with themes like Scandinavian mythology and the dream of Pythagoras. Today, more than 800,000 people annually take in the sights, sounds and attractions of the celebration. Historian and preservationist L. Craig Roberts, through extensive research and interviews, explores the captivating and charismatic history of Mardi Gras in the Port City.
Carnival in Alabama
Title | Carnival in Alabama PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Machado |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | 205 |
Release | 2023-01-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 149684260X |
Mobile is simultaneously a typical and unique city in the postwar United States. It was a quintessential boomtown during World War II. That prosperity was followed by a period of rapid urban decline and subsequent attempts at revitalizing (or gentrifying) its downtown area. As in many other US cities, urban renewal, integration, and other socioeconomic developments led to white flight, marginalized the African American population, and set the stage for the development of LGBTQ+ community building and subculture. Yet these usually segregated segments of society in Mobile converged once a year to create a common identity, that of a Carnival City. Carnival in Alabama looks not only at the people who participated in Mardi Gras organizations divided by race, gender, and/or sexual orientation, but also investigates the experience of “marked bodies” outside of these organizations, or people involved in Carnival through their labor or as audiences (or publics) of the spectacle. It also expands the definition of Mobile’s Carnival “tradition” beyond the official pageantry by including street maskers and laborers and neighborhood cookouts. Using archival sources and oral history interviews to investigate and analyze the roles assigned, inaccessible to, or claimed and appropriated by straight-identified African American men and women and people who defied gender and sexuality normativity in the festivities (regardless of their racial identity), this book illuminates power dynamics through culture and ritual. By looking at Carnival as an “invented tradition” and as a semiotic system associated with discourses of power, it joins a transnational conversation about the phenomenon.
Carnival, American Style
Title | Carnival, American Style PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Kinser |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780226437293 |
Lords of Misrule
Title | Lords of Misrule PDF eBook |
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.