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Always for Pleasure*
- 1977 ----- color ----- 58 min ----- vhs
- Beautifully photographed, keenly observed look at Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the various musical traditions to which it gave life. Shows a jazz funeral, "practice" parades, a St. Patrick's Day parade in a white neighborhood and the preparation of several culinary specialties. Sequences explore the "Black Indian" tradition in which working-class Blacks compete with one another in dancing, talking and parading in spectacular hand-sewn Indian costumes of their own design. (Restricted to classroom use only)
- Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Afro-American, Ethnomusicology, Music)
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