Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line Export

@article{citeulike:2139312, 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]}, author = {Regis, Helen A.}, citeulike-article-id = {2139312}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2001.28.4.752}, day = {305}, doi = {10.1525/ae.2001.28.4.752}, journal = {American Ethnologist}, keywords = {anthropology, community, culture, music, race}, month = {November}, number = {4}, pages = {752--777}, posted-at = {2007-12-18 03:49:27}, priority = {2}, title = {Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2001.28.4.752}, volume = {28}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2139312 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2139312 N2 - 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] IS - 4 JF - American Ethnologist EP - 777 TI - Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line VL - 28 SP - 752 KW - anthropology KW - community KW - culture KW - music KW - race AU - Regis, Helen PY - 2001/11/305/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2001.28.4.752 ER -