The Connoisseur's New Orleans

Robert A. Stebbins

About the Book

The essential New Orleans is identified and described here. Research has found that most visitors to this historic city usually spend three to ten days. Because there is so much to do and see, and because many are also attending a convention, tourists unfamiliar with New Orleans must make some choices. The Connoisseur's New Orleans offers newcomers a way through the pervasive commercialism to a deep, lasting understanding of one of North America's most unusual cities.

New Orleans is predominantly French in character. Although the French had many reasons for founding New Orleans, it became the only city in their colonial empire where settlers tried to reconstruct the aristocratic life of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Paris. Though the city had to adjust to its proximity to and political ties with the United States and the American South, the French period left many permanent institutions.

Here is a great guide to find out where to go, what to do, what to look for, and how to get there.

About the Author

Robert A. Stebbins grew up in Minneapolis where he worked as a jazz musician and where , at the University of Minnesota in 1962 and 1964, he completed his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology. Since then, he has taught at Presbyterian College (South Carolina), Memorial University of Newfoundland, the University of Texas at Arlington, and, from 1976, the University of Calgary. His specialties include the sociology of deviant behavior, work and leisure, and North American French communities. He has written or edited twenty books.

Table of Contents

1. Tourist New Orleans
2. The City and its Past
3. Jazz: A Cosmopolitan Music
4. Creole-Cajun Cuisine
5. New Orleans Architecture
6. The City that Care Forgot
7. The Connoisseur on the Town

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