Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans

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In his new book, Richard Brent Turner explores the history and up to date significance of the preferred religious traditions, identities, and performance forms celebrated in The second one lines of the jazz street parades of black New Orleans. The second one line is the group of dancers who follow the primary procession of church and club members, brass bands, and grand marshals. Here musical and spiritual traditions interplay. Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans examines the connection of jazz to indigenous religion and spirituality. It explores how the African diasporist religious identities and musical traditions—from Haiti and West and Central Africa—are reinterpreted in New Orleans jazz and popular religious performances, even as describing how the participants in The second one line create their very own social space and turn into proficient within the arts of political disguise, resistance, and performance.


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