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eBook details
- Title: New Orleans
- Author : Berndt Ostendorf
- Release Date : January 15, 2013
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Arts & Entertainment,Music,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3119 KB
Description
Ralph Ellison once wrote that the rules of performance in American culture are jazz-shaped. This book explores the Afro-creole core culture of New Orleans as the mainspring of this energizing music. Much of the cultural capital of the city is buried in a complex, tripartite racial history, which threatens the binary logic of North American racism with all sorts of sensual transgressions.
Its jazz-derived culture combines elements of African, French, Spanish and Anglo-American cultural practices which in their fusion have created a unique propulsive energy: Second line parades, jazz funerals, Mardi Gras Indians, Cajun and creole foodways, minstrelsy, dance, ragtime and jazz will be interpreted as the result of a set of historical circumstances unique to this Caribbean metropolis of the senses.
Including a preface by Günter Bischof and pictures by Michael P. Smith
