Cities of the dead : circum-Atlantic performance / Joseph Roach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roach, Joseph R., 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carnival--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.

Carnival.

Folklore--Louisiana--New Orleans--Performance.

Folklore.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Joseph Roach reveals how performance can revise the unwritten past, comparing patterns of remembrance and forgetting in how communities forge their identities and imagine their futures. He examines the syncretic performance traditions of Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the urban sites of London and New Orleans.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: History, Memory, and Performance

2. Echoes in the Bone

3. Betterton's Funeral

4. Feathered Peoples

5. One Blood

6. Carnival and the Law

Epilogue: New Frontiers

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55526-1

OCLC:

1281136647