Detail Home-grown and Spirit-raised; Mardi Gras Indians   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8816 (Dec. 2012), page 51-54. Topik: Mardi Gras; Cultural Festival; New Orleans Culture Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.75 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel An exuberant New Orleans ritual commemorates the friendship of escaped slaves and Native Americans. Ultimately the collection and the stage are to form the core of a museum dedicated to Mardi Gras Indian culture--a culture that has sustained thousands of working-class black men and women in New Orleans for more than a century. It revolves around parades, traditionally on Mardi Gras (in February or March) and on the Sunday closest to St Joseph's day (in March), in which black New Orleanians don elaborate suits of feathers, beads, sequins and costume jewels to sing, dance and chant. It is an intoxicating, beautiful spectacle: an intricate New Orleans art form.But the culture goes beyond public performance. Its roots reach back to Africa and pre-European America. It commemorates the aid given by one oppressed minority to another. At the same time it celebrates the defiance and self-determination of generations of black New Orleanians, excluded by segregation from the Mardi Gras celebrations of their white neighbours, who put on their outfits and marched despite the contempt of white New Orleans and the threat of jail and violence. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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