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Authentic New Orleans : tourism, culture, and race in the Big Easy / Kevin Fox Gotham.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gotham, Kevin Fox.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City promotion--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- City promotion.
- Tourism--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Tourism.
- Culture and tourism--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Culture and tourism.
- Carnival--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Carnival.
- Exhibitions--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.
- Exhibitions.
- History.
- New Orleans (La.)--History.
- New Orleans (La.).
- New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Mardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter-all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In Authentic New Orleans, Kevin Fox Gotham explains how New Orleans became one of the most popular tourist attractions in the United States, a spectacular locale known as much for its excesses as for its quirky Southern charm. This important volume tells the story of how New Orleans came to be a tourist town and how, even in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, it remains a truly unique American city.
- Contents:
- Introduction : authentic New Orleans
- 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 World 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814731857
- 0814731856
- 9780814731864
- 0814731864
- OCLC:
- 145379563
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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