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192 S. Fadengehefteter Originalpappband mit Schutzumschlag.

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Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - Text englisch. - The celebration of Mardi Gras in New Orleans is that city's oldest tradition. From her earlyr years as a French and Spanish colony, the ancient festival of the Latins was celebrated with masking and dancing. March Gras festivities of masquerades, processions, and balls took many forms, embracing every class and color. Few cities in the world shared the devotion with which New Orleans pursued the pleasures of Mardi Gras, and none could boast a population whose strata knew comparable delight. From Twelfth Night (6 January) to Mardi Gras, New Orleans lives for her Carnival- a brilliant season of balls, revelry, costuming, and parades. Carnival artist and historian Henri Schindler offers a stunning panorama of Mardi Gras' evolution and its exuberant diversities-the early Creole cavalcades; the torchlit processions of me Mislick Krewe of Comus; the rise of Rex, King of the Carnival; fabulous tableaux balls; Carnival royalty; Storyville and the Baby Dolls; Les Mystérieuses, the first female society; and African-American creations-the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, and Mardi Gras Indians. The artistry, the joyous spirit, and strange opulence ol Mardi Gras' Golden Age are revived in a ; profusion of illustrations, most ol them published for the first time-beautifully finished watercolor designs of floats, costumes, and ball invitations, vintage photographs, lithographs, and prints.