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Cajun Mardi Gras Masks (Folk Art and Artists Series)
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Cajun Mardi Gras Masks (Folk Art and Artists Series) Paperback - 2011

by Lindahl, Carl; Ware, Carolyn

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University Press of Mississippi, 2011-01-28. Paperback. Like New. 8x7x0. Softcover in Like New condition. Carefully packaged to avoid damage in shipping.
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  • Title Cajun Mardi Gras Masks (Folk Art and Artists Series)
  • Author Lindahl, Carl; Ware, Carolyn
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Mississippi
  • Date 2011-01-28
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 061007-Cajun
  • ISBN 9781617031342 / 1617031348
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 7.9 x 0.2 in (20.07 x 20.07 x 0.51 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Carnival masks - Louisiana - Basile, Carnival masks - Louisiana - Mamou
  • Dewey Decimal Code 391.434

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From the publisher

Every winter a handful of Cajun Louisiana folk artists assembles unlikely mixtures of material to shape masks for their Cajun Mardi Gras celebrations. They use window screens, chicken feathers, yarn, hair, Magic Markers, and hot glue as they create fanciful, even bizarre masks that will be worn just one day in the year.

Such creations transform their wearers into wild revelers who move through the countryside singing, dancing, and begging for money and food. As they generate merriment, they climb trees, chase chickens, and create a general and playful havoc.

Cajun Mardi Gras celebrants are unlike their counterparts in New Orleans, where masked revelers ride through the streets on floats or parade serenely through ballrooms. The masked country Cajuns engage in rousing, physically energetic performances as they cavort through the countryside. Out of necessity their captivating masks combine the ingredients of durability, shock value, and allure with age-old folk patterns and innovations from contemporary culture.

Here is a study of the Cajun Mardi Gras tradition and its manifestation in the work of six of the most creative and popular folk artists in two rural communities. Potic Rider and the Moreau and LeBlue families represent the male maskmaking traditions of Basile, Louisiana. Suson Launey, Renee Fruge, and Jackie Miller portray the female role in festivities held in the rural region of Tee Mamou. As the communities celebrate, their masks become an intrinsic component of the annual rites. This book introduces the artists, the performances, and processes of creating the fantastical masks.

About the author

Carl Lindahl is Martha Gano Houstoun Research Professor of English and folklore at the University of Houston. He has authored or edited seventeen books, including Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana, Perspectives on the Jack Tales and Other North American Mrchen, American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress, Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita, and We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery. Carolyn Ware is coordinator of the Pine Hills Culture Program at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

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