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

摘要: Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from a corrupt and sullied port of call into national tourist destination. Anthony J. Stanonis tells how boosters politicians reinvented city to build modern mass tourism industry and, along way, fundamentally changed city's cultural, economic, racial, gender structure. looks at importance urban development, historic preservation, taxation strategies, convention marketing Orleans' makeover chronicles efforts domesticate jazz scene, "democratize" Mardi Gras, stereotype local blacks docile, servile roles. He also depictions in literature film gauges impact on white middle-class America's growing prosperity, mobility, leisure time, tolerance women public spaces once considered off-limits. Visitors go with expectations rooted "past": revel Gras maskers, soak up romance French Quarter, indulge rich cuisine hot music. Such past has basis history, says Stanonis, but it been carefully excised gritty context scrubbed clean for consumption.