New Orleans

Creolization and all that Jazz

von Berndt Ostendorf

204 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Transatlantica
• ISBN: 9783706552097
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.03.2013
• Genre: Geschichte/Kulturgeschichte
• Verlag: Studien Verlag