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Author: Isabel Machado Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1496842626 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 263
Book Description
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.
Author: Isabel Machado Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 1496842626 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 263
Book Description
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.
Author: Isabel Machado (Cultural historian) Publisher: ISBN: 9781496842619 Category : Carnival Languages : en Pages : 0
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"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 seeks to understand 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"--
Author: Isabel Machado Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 149684260X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
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.
Author: L. Craig Roberts Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625852517 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
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.
Author: Joanna Ponto Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC ISBN: 0766074722 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
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: Sherry Ward Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 0595250432 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 226
Book Description
The YSWP Anthology of New Plays gives a voice to a new generation of Southern authors. The Plays of 2002: First Place: Perpetual Motion by Michael Griffith Second Place: A Killer in the Trailer Park by Adam Andrianopoulos Third Place: All Four Feet by Kelly Lambert Finalists: Patching by Margaret Florence Berry The Bureau by James Coleman Fairly Taled by Scott Fortner Fitting In by Mary Kate Grip An Alien in the South by PJ Lee Atheism in a Southern Baptist World by Kali Pyrlik My Luck by Gary Smith We Want Our Freedom by Miles Thompson Football: The Religion by Erin Weems Olivia by Brannon Woods
Author: Ann Pond Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1329461797 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
"Following the lives of Michael Krafft, and his family, Cowbellion tells the story of how Mardi Gras was born in antebellum Mobile, New Orleans and the ports of the northeast. Masked balls, slaves, Creoles, and Yellow Fever were all new to the Krafft family and thousands of others who came to Deep South in the 1820's and 1830's, to be at the center of the booming international cotton trade. Out of their experiences, a new tradition of festivity was born."--Publisher's description.
Author: Isabel Machado
Author: Isabel Machado
Author: Isabel Machado (Cultural historian)
Author: Isabel Machado
Author: L. Craig Roberts
Author: Joanna Ponto
Author: Carole Marsh
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Author: Sherry Ward
Author: Ann Pond
Author: Carole Marsh