A season of night : New Orleans life after Katrina / by McNulty, Ian, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Rowed home -- From pillar to post -- Heartbreak motel -- Omens of homecoming -- Candles & coolers -- Civilization, distilled and deglazed -- Ground scores -- Open houses -- Tropical lows -- The Katrina Christmas -- Mardi Gras -- A new normal.…”
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Jazz religion, the second line, and Black New Orleans / by Turner, Richard Brent

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Follow the second line -- The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer -- Mardi Gras Indians and second lines, sequin artists and rara bands : street festivals and performances in New Orleans and Haiti -- Interlude: The healing arts of African diasporic religion -- In rhythm with the spirit : New Orleans jazz funerals and the African diaspora -- Epilogue : A jazz funeral for "a city that care forgot" : the New Orleans diaspora after Hurricane Katrina.…”
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Choreographing history /

Table of Contents: “…Laqueur -- Advertising every body : images from the Japanese modern years / Miriam Silverberg -- Bodies of doctrine : headshots, Jane Austen, and the Black Indians of Mardi Gras / Joseph Roach -- Modern dance in the Third Reich : six positions and a coda / Susan A. …”
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