Inventing the fiesta city [electronic resource] : heritage and carnival in San Antonio / Laura Hernández-Ehrisman.

ISBN:

9780826343123

9781283636674

9786613949134

Title:

Inventing the fiesta city [electronic resource] : heritage and carnival in San Antonio / Laura Hernández-Ehrisman.

Author:

Hernández-Ehrisman, Laura, 1972-

Personal Author:

Hernández-Ehrisman, Laura, 1972-

Publication Information:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations, portraits

General Note:

"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Contents:

Introduction : San Antonio's pedestrian rhetoric -- Battle of flowers : women and San Antonio's public culture, 1891-1900 -- The Order of the Alamo : heritage and Spring Carnival, 1900-27 -- Night in old San Antonio : the San Antonio Conservation Society, 1924-48 -- Juan Q. Public : Reynolds Andricks and the Fiesta San Jacinto Association, 1950-70 -- Rey Feo and the politics of inclusion, 1970-2000 -- Fiesta rowdiness : la Semana de Carnaval.

Local Note:

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Conference Subject:

Fiesta San Antonio (San Antonio, Tex.)

Subject Term:

Festivals -- Texas -- San Antonio.

Geographic Term:

San Antonio (Tex.) -- Social life and customs.

Added Corporate Author:

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

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Publication Date:

2008

Publication Information:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2008.

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Summary

Fiesta San Antonio began in 1891 and through the twentieth century expanded from a single parade to over two hundred events spanning a ten-day period. Laura Hernández-Ehrisman examines Fiesta's development as part of San Antonio's culture of power relations between men and women, Anglos and Mexicanos.

In some ways Fiesta resembles hundreds of urban celebrations across the country, but San Antonio offers a unique fusion of Southern, Western, and Mexican cultures that articulates a distinct community identity. From its beginning as a celebration of a new social order in San Antonio controlled by a German and Anglo elite to the citywide spectacle of today, Hernández-Ehrisman traces the connections between Fiesta and the construction of the city's tourist industry and social change in San Antonio.