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The book is convincing and enjoyably drives home the message that anyone looking to certify the energy and evidence of recovery in New Orleans could today look at the city's skyline, with its signs of remodeling and new construction [but that] better advice would be to cast an eye lower, to the Downtown streets of New Orleans and its parades of motley revelers, who in feathers, beads, horns, face, paint, and glitter, repair and reimagine the life of the city through the labor of play (p. 26).--Aurelie Godet, Universite de Paris Journal of Festive Studies

In Downtown Mardi Gras, Leslie A. Wade, Robin Roberts, and Frank de Caro examine some of the interesting and important developments that have occurred on the New Orleans Mardi Gras scene since the flooding associated with Hurricane Katrina ruined much of the city in 2005. . . The underlying message throughout this collection of essays is that Mardi Gras does indeed matter, so much so, in fact, that new krewes emerged after Katrina to express the changing nature of the community.--Barry Jean Ancelet, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Emeritus Journal of American Folklore 135(535):98-121 The book is convincing and enjoyably drives home the message that anyone looking to certify the energy and evidence of recovery in New Orleans could today look at the city's skyline, with its signs of remodeling and new construction [but that] better advice would be to cast an eye lower, to the Downtown streets of New Orleans and its parades of motley revelers, who in feathers, beads, horns, face, paint, and glitter, repair and reimagine the life of the city through the labor of play (p. 26).--Aurelie Godet, Universite de Paris Journal of Festive Studies

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Leslie A. Wade is a professor and playwright in the Theatre Department at the University of Arkansas. Formerly the Billy J. Harbin Professor of Theatre at Louisiana State University, he has published on contemporary theatre and New Orleans culture. Robin Roberts is professor of English and gender studies at the University of Arkansas. She is author of six books on gender and popular culture, including Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture, published by University Press of Mississippi. Frank de Caro is professor emeritus at Louisiana State University. He is the award-winning author of numerous books on folklore, including Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts, published by University Press of Mississippi.

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