Cajun Mardi Gras A History Of Chasing Chickens And Making Gumbo
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Cajun Mardi Gras A History Of Chasing Chickens And Making Gumbo
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Author : Dixie Poché
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2023-01-02
Cajun Mardi Gras A History Of Chasing Chickens And Making Gumbo written by Dixie Poché and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-02 with History categories.
Dive into Cajun Mardis Gras, where the party goes down with a wholly different flourish Everyone knows about Louisiana Mardi Gras and its glitz, glam, parades and masquerades. But in Cajun County, the festival turns communities into stage shows of wild revelry. Called Courir de Mardi Gras in the rural parishes, you'll find masked runners and horsemen bedecked in colorful, tattered clothing, cavorting through the countryside on a begging quest for gumbo ingredients. It's an outrageous celebration--derived from the French medieval Festival of Begging--on the eve of Lenten season's fasting. In exchange for neighborly generosity, the revelers sing, dance, act a fool, chase chickens and unite the community with an abundance of mirth that reverberates year-round. Join author Dixie Poche and take part in the wild spectacle and otherworldly whimsy of Courir de Mardis Gras.
Gumbo Ya Ya
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Author : Lyle Saxon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Gumbo Ya Ya written by Lyle Saxon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
Mardi Gras In The Country
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Author : Mary Alice Fontenot
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 1994-12
Mardi Gras In The Country written by Mary Alice Fontenot and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-12 with Cajuns categories.
Marianne and Claude visit their grandmother in southwest Louisiana for the famous country Mardi Gras.
The Baby Dolls
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Author : Kim Marie Vaz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Baby Dolls written by Kim Marie Vaz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Social Science categories.
"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 Tremé 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."--Page 4 of cover.
A Dictionary Of Symbols
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Author : J. E. Cirlot
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2023-07-11
A Dictionary Of Symbols written by J. E. Cirlot and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-11 with Reference categories.
This classic encyclopedia of symbols by the renowned Spanish poet illuminates the imagery of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art. J. E. Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature—a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer, poet, critic, and champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped introduce him to the study of symbolism. This volume explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where nothing is meaningless, and everything is in some way related to something else. Running from “abandonment” to “zone” by way of “flute” and “whip,” spanning the cultures of the world, and including a wealth of visual images to further bring the reality of the symbol home, A Dictionary of Symbols is a luminous and illuminating investigation of the works of eternity in time.
Subject To Change
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Author : Deirdre Boyle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1997-03-27
Subject To Change written by Deirdre Boyle and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-27 with Performing Arts categories.
Before the Internet, camcorders, and hundred-channel cable- systems--predating the Information Superhighway and talk of cyber-democracy--there was guerilla television. Part of the larger alternative media tide which swept the country in the late sixties, guerilla television emerged when the arrival of lightweight, affordable consumer video equipment made it possible for ordinary people to make their own television. Fueled both by outrage at the day's events and by the writings of people like Marshall McLuhan, Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson, the movement gained a manifesto in 1971, when Michael Shamberg and the raindance Corp. published Guerilla Television. As framed in this quixotic text, the goal of the video guerilla was nothing less than a reshaping of the structure of information in America. In Subject to Change, Deidre Boyle tells the fascinating story of the first TV generation's dream of remaking television and their frustrated attempts at democratizing the medium. Interweaving the narratives of three very different video collectives from the 1970s--TVTV, Broadside TV, and University Community Video--Boyle offers a thought-provoking account of an earlier electronic utopianism, one with significant implications for today's debates over free speech, public discourse, and the information explosion.
Mimi S First Mardi Gras
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Author : Elizabeth Moore, Alice Couvillon, Marilyn Rougelot
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 1999
Mimi S First Mardi Gras written by Elizabeth Moore, Alice Couvillon, Marilyn Rougelot and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Carnival categories.
Mimi and her parents enjoy the color and excitement of Mardi Gras in New Orleans and observe many traditional aspects of the celebration.
Cajun Women And Mardi Gras
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Author : Carolyn E. Ware
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2024-03-18
Cajun Women And Mardi Gras written by Carolyn E. Ware and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-18 with Social Science categories.
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.
Dictionary Of Louisiana French
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Author : Albert Valdman
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2010
Dictionary Of Louisiana French written by Albert Valdman and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Foreign Language Study categories.
The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the coastal marshes, the banks of the Mississippi River, the central area, the north, and the western prairie. Data were collected during interviews from at least five persons in each of twenty-four areas in these regions. In addition to the data collected from fieldwork, the dictionary contains material compiled from existing lexical inventories, from texts published after 1930, and from archival recordings. The new authoritative resource, the DLF not only contains the largest number of words and expressions but also provides the most complete information available for each entry. Entries include the word in the conventional French spelling, the pronunciation (including attested variants), the part of speech classification, the English equivalent, and the word's use in common phrases. The DLF features a wealth of illustrative examples derived from fieldwork and textual sources and identification of the parish where the entry was collected or the source from which it was compiled. An English-to-Louisiana French index enables readers to find out how particular notions would be expressed in la Louisiane .
Louisiana In Words
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Author : Joshua Clark
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2007-02-28
Louisiana In Words written by Joshua Clark and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-28 with Literary Collections categories.
"Louisiana in Words is a Book of Hours for a place that's more like a religion than a state." -Josh Russell, author of Yellow Jack "Here we are, Louisianians all, somewhere in this book, but after that sense of self-recognition comes a desire to go to every place in this book, see it, know it like the writer does, experience our home state's every corner." -New Orleans Times-Picayune Taste, smell, hear, and see Louisiana in this collection of one-minute experiences taking place over a twenty-four-hour period across the Pelican State. One hundred twenty Louisiana-born or current resident contributors of all ages, backgrounds, and perspectives have offered their grateful, graceful, and grave visions of the state, a place as evocative as the essays within this gathering of voices. The ultimate insider's look, the book provides an unparalleled feel for hitherto hidden worlds inside the state. Together these minutes provide a mosaic of the landscape, heritage, speech, and traditions of Louisiana, a place so often romanticized, demonized, adored, pitied, and patronized. Contributors were asked to write one page or less about one minute, anytime, anywhere, in Louisiana. Writers selected include award-winning writers such as John Biguenet, Andrei Codrescu, Barry Gifford, Bev Marshall, David Madden, Lee Meitzen Grue, and Fredrick Barton as well as novice writers of all ages. Passages cast Louisiana's diverse peoples as backdrop against the action that transpires within the minute. Authors and their stories' settings reflect the entire state, from the northeast corner near Lake Providence to Lake Charles in the southeast; from Monroe along the Ouachita River and Shreveport in the northwest to Lafayette, the heart of Cajun country; from the south-centrally located Alexandria on the Red River to the southernmost port of New Orleans.