{"id":2385,"date":"2010-02-15T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2010-09-30T12:00:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T16:00:36","slug":"mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"

Week of February 15, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the News:<\/em><\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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After the Dance: A Walk through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Edwidge Danticat. Crown Publishers, 2002
\nCall Number: GT4226 .J33 D35 2002<\/a><\/p>\n

All on a Mardi Gras Day: Episodes in the History of New Orleans Carnival<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Reid Mitchell. Harvard University Press, 1995
\nCall Number: PS3552 .R718 F37 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Kevin Fox Gotham. New York University Press, 2007
\nCall Number: Available online via NetLibrary<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bacchanal!: The Carnival Culture of Trinidad<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Peter Mason. Temple University Press, 1998
\nCall Number: GT4229 .T7 M37 1998<\/a><\/p>\n

Beads and Bead Makers: Gender, Material Culture, and Meaning<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Lidia D. Sciama and Joanne B. Eicher. Berg, 1998
\nCall Number: GN433.5 .B43 1998<\/a><\/p>\n

Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Roger D. Abrahams et al. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006
\nCall Number: GT4211 .N4 B58 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Cajun Women and Mardi Gras: Reading the Rule Backward<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Carolyn E. Ware. University of Illinois Press, 2007
\nCall Number: FT4210 .L8 W37 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Caribbean Eye – 9: Caribbean Carnivals<\/strong> <\/em>(VHS)
\nDirected by Tony Hall et al. Banyan Archives, 1999?
\nCall Number: GT4223 .C37 1999<\/a> (Boca Raton Media Center)<\/p>\n

Carnival: Culture in Action: The Trinidad Experience<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Milla Cozart Riggio. Routledge, 2004
\nCall Number: GT4229 .T7 C37 2004<\/a> (Also available online via NetLibrary<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Carnival, American Style: Mardi Gras at New Orleans and Mobile<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Samuel Kinser. University of Chicago Press, 1990
\nCall Number: GT4211 .N4 K56 1990<\/a><\/p>\n

Carnival, Canboulay, and Calypso: Traditions in the Making<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By John Cowley. Cambridge University Press, 1996
\nCall Number: GT4229 .T7 C69 1998<\/a><\/p>\n

Carnival and the Formation of a Caribbean Transnation<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Philip W. Scher. University Press of Florida, 2003
\nCall Number: GT4229 .T7 S24 2003<\/a><\/p>\n

Carnival in Rio<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Helmut Teissl. Abbeville Press, 2000
\nCall Number: GT4233 .R5 T4513 2000<\/a><\/p>\n

Carnival Music in Trinidad: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Shannon Dudley. Oxford University Press, 2004
\nCall Number: ML3486 .T7 D83 2004<\/a><\/p>\n

Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Anthony J. Stanonis. University of Georgia Press, 2006
\nCall Number: G155 .U6 S645 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dragon Can’t Dance: A Novel<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Earl Lovelace. Persea Books, 1998
\nCall Number: PR9727.9 .L6 D72 1998<\/a><\/p>\n

Governing Sound: The Cultural Politics of Trinidad’s Carnival Musics<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Jocelyn Guilbaut. University of Chicago Press, 2007
\nCall Number: ML3486 .T7 G85 2007<\/a><\/p>\n

Mardi Gras in New Orleans<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Langston Hughes. Alexander Street Press, 2005
\nCall Number: Available online via Twentieth Century North American Drama<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Gerard Aching. University of Minnesota Press, 2002
\nCall Number: GT4223 .A2 A25 2002<\/a><\/p>\n

New Orleans: A Cultural History<\/strong>
\n<\/em>By Louise McKinney. Oxford University Press, 2006
\nCall Number: F379 .N55 M39 2006<\/a><\/p>\n

Trinidad Carnival: The Cultural Politics of a Transnational Festival<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Edited by Garth L. Green and Philip W. Scher. Indian University Press, 2007
\nCall Number: GT4229 .T7 T74 2007<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[407,406,405,371,404,36,409,408],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-in-the-library","category-in-the-news","tag-caribbean","tag-carnival","tag-fat-tuesday","tag-haiti","tag-mardi-gras","tag-new-orleans","tag-trinidad","tag-west-indies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3333,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/3333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libweb.fau.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}