Mardi Gras

Week of February 15, 2010

In the News: Mardi Gras is here! There’s more to it than just beads and imbibing. Learn about the Carnivals that are celebrated worldwide, traditionally between Epiphany and the start of Lent.

After the Dance: A Walk through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
By Edwidge Danticat. Crown Publishers, 2002
Call Number: GT4226 .J33 D35 2002

All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival
By Reid Mitchell. Harvard University Press, 1995
Call Number: PS3552 .R718 F37 1997

Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy
By Kevin Fox Gotham. New York University Press, 2007
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Bacchanal!: The Carnival Culture of Trinidad
By Peter Mason. Temple University Press, 1998
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 M37 1998

Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture, and Meaning
Edited by Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B. Eicher. Berg, 1998
Call Number: GN433.5 .B43 1998

Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul
By Roger D. Abrahams et al. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
Call Number: GT4211 .N4 B58 2006

Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rule Backward
By Carolyn E. Ware. University of Illinois Press, 2007
Call Number: FT4210 .L8 W37 2007

Caribbean Eye – 9: Caribbean Carnivals (VHS)
Directed by Tony Hall et al. Banyan Archives, 1999?
Call Number: GT4223 .C37 1999 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Carnival: Culture in Action: The Trinidad Experience
Edited by Milla Cozart Riggio. Routledge, 2004
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 C37 2004 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

Carnival, American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile
By Samuel Kinser. University of Chicago Press, 1990
Call Number: GT4211 .N4 K56 1990

Carnival, Canboulay, and Calypso: Traditions in the Making
By John Cowley. Cambridge University Press, 1996
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 C69 1998

Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation
By Philip W. Scher. University Press of Florida, 2003
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 S24 2003

Carnival in Rio
By Helmut Teissl. Abbeville Press, 2000
Call Number: GT4233 .R5 T4513 2000

Carnival Music in Trinidad: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
By Shannon Dudley. Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: ML3486 .T7 D83 2004

Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945
By Anthony J. Stanonis. University of Georgia Press, 2006
Call Number: G155 .U6 S645 2006

The Dragon Can’t Dance: A Novel
By Earl Lovelace. Persea Books, 1998
Call Number: PR9727.9 .L6 D72 1998

Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics
By Jocelyn Guilbaut. University of Chicago Press, 2007
Call Number: ML3486 .T7 G85 2007

Mardi Gras in New Orleans
By Langston Hughes. Alexander Street Press, 2005
Call Number: Available online via Twentieth Century North American Drama

Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean
By Gerard Aching. University of Minnesota Press, 2002
Call Number: GT4223 .A2 A25 2002

New Orleans: A Cultural History
By Louise McKinney. Oxford University Press, 2006
Call Number: F379 .N55 M39 2006

Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival
Edited by Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher. Indian University Press, 2007
Call Number: GT4229 .T7 T74 2007