Description An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of Black New Orleans before and After Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid.
In the late 1990s, Turner lived in New Orleans while teaching at Xavier University..
He is author of Islam in the African-American Experience (IUP, 2003).
About the Author Richard Brent Turner is Professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies at the University of Iowa.
He also describes how Second Line participants create their own social space and become proficient in the arts of political disguise, resistance, and performance.
Here music and Religion interplay, and Turner\'s study reveals how these identities and traditions from Haiti and West and Central Africa are reinterpreted.
Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of Second lines--the group of dancers who follow the first procession of church and club members, brass bands, and grand marshals in Black New Orleans\'s Jazz street parades.
Description An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of Black New Orleans before and After Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid
