The St. Louis Veiled Prophet celebration : power on parade, 1877-1995 /
Annotation The Veiled Prophet organization has been a vital institution in St. Louis for more than a century. Founded in March 1878 by a group of prominent St. Louis businessmen, the organization was fashioned after the New Orleans Carnival society the Mystick Krewe of Comus. In The St. Louis Veiled...
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Social Meaning of Public Spectacles in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century United States
- 1. Power on Parade: The Origins of the Veiled Prophet Celebration
- 2. "Panorama of Progress": The Veiled Prophet Celebration, 1878-1899
- 3. "His Mysterious Majesty": The Veiled Prophet Celebration, 1900-1942
- 4. "More and More a Social Phenomenon": The Veiled Prophet Celebration, 1946-1965
- 5. "Whacking the Elephant Where It Hurts": The Veiled Prophet Organization, ACTION, and Economic Justice in St. Louis, 1965-1980
- 6. "An Activity the City Could Hang Its Hat On": The Veiled Prophet Celebration, 1981-1995
- Conclusion: Whither VP? The Veiled Prophet Celebration and the Historiography of Public Celebrations in America.