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New Orleans
Creolization and all that Jazz1. Aufl.
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Verlag: | Studienverlag |
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Veröffentl.: | 25.03.2013 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9783706557146 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 204 |
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Beschreibungen
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 Gnter Bischof and pictures by Michael P. Smith