Blackness and the politics of memory in the New Orleans second line

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Abstract

Popular memorial practices, including traditional jazz funeral processions, are continually being refashioned and re-appropriated for devotional, commercial, and political purposes in New Orleans. Belying nostalgic representations of the jazz funeral as a "dying tradition," neighborhood-based parades produced by working-class African Americans continue to provide a space for the articulation of local subjectivities, particularly for those most affected by the violence of contemporary urban life. [blackness, memory, New Orleans, urban space, performance, violence, heritage].

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

American Ethnologist

Number

645

First Page

752

Last Page

777

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