Freeze-Outs Before Cross-Listings: An Analysis of the Mardi Gras Strategy

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dhammika Dharmapala ◽  
Vikramaditya S. Khanna
Keyword(s):  
Mardi Gras

scholarly journals Keep That Lane Open!: Race, Space, and Mardi Gras in Kansas City

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Williams
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
African American Culture ◽  
Mardi Gras ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Bodily Movement

This essay explores the open-ended and complex performance of an underground Mardi Gras parade in Kansas City, MO, in 2012. The sounds, movement, and route of the parade are shaped by a network of globally circulating images of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, the history of race and space in Kansas City, and the intercultural exchange involved in white performances of black cultural practices as they move from the “circum-Caribbean” city of New Orleans to the U.S. heartland of Kansas City. The parade is a partially improvised performance of a historical narrative linking Kansas City’s mostly white bohemian arts culture in the present to the city’s past as a major jazz city and center for African American culture. This narrative is told by bodily movement through urban space and through improvised sound and dance, and demonstrates the complex social relations that are highlighted when a cultural form is subject to cross-cultural communication, borrowing, and appropriation.

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