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