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New York : New York University Press, [2007]

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations, maps

ISBN 9780814733073 (e-book)

ISBN 0814731856 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 0814731864 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780814731857 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780814731864 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Print version: Gotham, Kevin Fox. Authentic New Orleans : tourism, culture, and race in the Big Easy. New York : New York University Press, [2007] xiii, 281 pages ; 23 cm ISBN 9780814731857

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : authentic New Orleans -- Processions and parades : Carnival krewes and the development of modern Mardi Gras -- "Of incomprehensible magnitude and bewildering variety" : the 1884 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition -- Authenticity in black and white : the rise of tourism in the twentieth century -- Boosting the Big Easy : New Orleans goes global -- From a culture of tourism to a touristic culture : the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition and the holy trinity of New Orleans tourism -- A repertoire of authenticity : contested space and transformation of the French Quarter -- "The greatest free show on earth" : intimations and antinomies of commodification and Carnival -- Conclusion : the future of New Orleans.

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(OCoLC)779828094