How Long to Read Creating the Big Easy

How Long Does it Take to Read Creating the Big Easy?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read Creating the Big Easy by Anthony Joseph Stanonis

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Between the World Wars, New Orleans transformed its image from that of a corrupt and sullied port of call into that of a national tourist destination. Anthony J. Stanonis tells how boosters and politicians reinvented the city to build a modern mass tourism industry and, along the way, fundamentally changed the city's cultural, economic, racial, and gender structure. Stanonis looks at the importance of urban development, historic preservation, taxation strategies, and convention marketing to New Orleans' makeover and chronicles the city's efforts to domesticate its jazz scene, "democratize" Mardi Gras, and stereotype local blacks into docile, servile roles. He also looks at depictions of the city in literature and film and gauges the impact on New Orleans of white middle-class America's growing prosperity, mobility, leisure time, and tolerance of women in public spaces once considered off-limits. Visitors go to New Orleans with expectations rooted in the city's "past": to revel with Mardi Gras maskers, soak up the romance of the French Quarter, and indulge in rich cuisine and hot music. Such a past has a basis in history, says Stanonis, but it has been carefully excised from its gritty context and scrubbed clean for mass consumption.

How long is Creating the Big Easy?

Creating the Big Easy by Anthony Joseph Stanonis is 342 pages long, and a total of 86,184 words.

This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Creating the Big Easy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read Creating the Big Easy aloud.

What Reading Level is Creating the Big Easy?

Creating the Big Easy is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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