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Walking Raddy - The Baby Dolls of New Orleans (Paperback)
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Walking Raddy - The Baby Dolls of New Orleans (Paperback)
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Since 2004, the Baby Doll Mardi Gras tradition in New Orleans has
gone from an obscure, almost forgotten practice to a flourishing
cultural force. The original Baby Dolls were groups of black women,
and some men, in the early Jim Crow era who adopted New Orleans
street masking tradition as a unique form of fun and
self-expression against a backdrop of racial discrimination.
Wearing short dresses, bloomers, bonnets, and garters with money
tucked tight, they strutted, sang ribald songs, chanted, and danced
on Mardi Gras Day and on St. Joseph feast night. Today's Baby Dolls
continue the tradition of one of the first street women's masking
and marching groups in the United States. They joyfully and
unabashedly defy gender roles, claiming public space and
proclaiming through their performance their right to social
citizenship. Essayists draw on interviews, theoretical
perspectives, archival material, and historical assessments to
describe women's cultural performances that take place on the
streets of New Orleans. They recount the history and contemporary
resurgence of the Baby Dolls while delving into the larger cultural
meaning of the phenomenon. Over 140 color photographs and personal
narratives of immersive experiences provide passionate testimony of
the impact of the Baby Dolls on their audiences. Fifteen artists
offer statements regarding their work documenting and inspired by
the tradition as it stimulates their imagination to present a
practice that revitalizes the spirit.
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