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Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945

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Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination. Anthony J. Stanonis tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a up to date mass tourism industry and, along the way in which, fundamentally changed the city’s cultural, economic, racial, and gender structure.

Stanonis looks on the importance of urban development, historic preservation, taxation strategies, and convention marketing to New Orleans’ makeover and chronicles the city’s efforts to domesticate its jazz scene, “democratize” Mardi Gras, and stereotype local blacks into docile, servile roles. He also looks at depictions of the city in literature and film and gauges the affect on New Orleans of white middle-class The us’s growing prosperity, mobility, leisure time, and tolerance of women in public spaces once thought to be off-limits.

Visitors go to New Orleans with expectations rooted within the city’s “past”: to revel with Mardi Gras maskers, soak up the romance of the French Quarter, and indulge in wealthy cuisine and hot music. The sort of past has a basis in history, says Stanonis, nevertheless it has been carefully excised from its gritty context and scrubbed clean for mass consumption.

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