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Southern Decadence in New Orleans
Title
Southern Decadence in New Orleans / Howard Philips Smith & Frank Perez ; foreword by Robert Laurent ; afterword by Maureen Block.
ISBN
9780807171141
9780807171158
9780807169537
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2018]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2018]
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 pages): illustrations
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Summary
"Founded in the summer of 1972 by a few friends as a modest celebration, the Southern Decadence festival has since grown into one of New Orleans's largest annual tourist events. The multiday extravaganza features street parties, drag contests, dancing, drinking, and bead tosses, culminating with a boisterous parade through the French Quarter ... [This book] brings together an ... array of materials to provide the first comprehensive, historical look at [the festival]"--Dust jacket flap.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE books annual backfile collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 13, 2023
Contents
Foreword / by Robert Laurent
A note on numbering and sources
Introduction: the quest for the pleasure-dome
1.Decadence takes the world, 2016: part 1
2. The birth of Southern Decadence, 1972-1980
3. The French Quarter gay community
4. The gaying of Decadence, 1981-1996
5. Southern Decadence and Carnival
6. Bar culture and the rise of Decadence
7. The AIDS crisis and community building
8. The juggernaut, 1997-2015
9. Decadence takes the world, 2016: part 2
10. The future of Southern Decadence
Afterword / by Maureen Block
Putting on the parade: interviews with Southern Decadence participants. Edward "Blanche" Norton ; Robert Laurent ; Lou Bernard Jr. ; Errol Rizzuto ; Greg Manogue (Miss Love) Rip and Marsha Naquin-Delain
Early Southern Decadence Invitations
The super 8mm films
Master list of parades and grand marshals
In memoriam.
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Genre/Form
History.
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