Part One: Heralds

Dedication

Angelic Raves for Mystick Krewe of Swan Songs

Earth-bound Raves

Part Two: Preliminaries

Introduction

Title Float

Part Three: Curriculum Chairs: New Orleans 101

Holy Fool’s Float

Supreme Yat Float

Bricoleur’s Float

Commentator’s Float

Grand Marshall’s Float

Social Geneticist’s Float

Ethnographer’s Float

Part Four: Mystick Krewe’s Royalty

Her Majesty’s Band Float

Queen’s Float: Ruthie the Duck Girl

Part Five: Tableaux Vivants

1989 Last Respects Float

1990 Garden of Memories Float

1991 Merry Widow Float

1993 Last Laugh Float

2000 In the Sweet By and By Float

Part Six: Rear Guard

Swan Song

Post Script

Postlude

Part Seven: Appendices

i Text of Dr. Reese Phillips’s Presentation

ii Recipes

iii Acknowledgements

iv About the Author

Part Eight: Endnotes