Book
Jazz religion, the second line, and black New Orleans: after Hurricane Katrina
p.XIII
Indiana University Press, New edition
2017
Abstract
On August 29, 2015, the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, many black New Orleanians focused on creating their own social spaces in order to experience the African ancestral memory, the communal music, and the healing and resistance arts celebrated in thejazzstreet parades and African diasporist culture from Congo Square to the Lower Ninth Ward—where the levees broke and black people drowned during the flooding of the city. They looked to their forebears, like Louis Armstrong, who had long ago expressed the spirit of solace and the remembrance of the mysteries of life and death that inspired the
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Jazz religion, the second line, and black New Orleans: after Hurricane Katrina
- Creators
- Richard Brent Turner - University of Iowa, Religious Studies
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publication Details
- p.XIII
- Edition
- New edition
- ISBN
- 9780253024947; 0253024943
- eISBN
- 0253025125; 9780253025128
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press; Bloomington
- Number of pages
- xxxvi, 199 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2017
- Academic Unit
- African American Studies; Classics and Religious Studies; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9983995696002771
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