Description Approached as a wellspring of cultural Authenticity and historical exceptionality, New Orleans appears in opposition to a nation perpetually driven by progress.
Matt Sakakeeny is Associate Professor of Music at Tulane University and author of Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans, also published by Duke University Press..
Regis, Matt Sakakeeny, Heidi Schmalbach, Felipe Smith, Bryan Wagner About the Author Thomas Jessen Adams is Lecturer in History and American Studies, Academic Director of the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and coeditor of Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans.
Long, Vicki Mayer, Toby Miller, Sue Mobley, Marguerite Nguyen, Aaron Nyerges, Adolph Reed Jr., Helen A.
Johnson, Alecia P.
Thomas Jessen Adams, Vincanne Adams, Vern Baxter, Maria Celeste Casati Allegretti, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Rien Fertel, Megan French-Marcelin, Cedric G.
Contributors.
Covering the city\'s founding through its present and highlighting changing political and social formations, this volume remakes New Orleans as a rich site for understanding the quintessential concerns of American cities.
Nontraditional sites like professional wrestling matches, middle-class black suburbs, and Vietnamese gardens take precedence over clich d renderings of Creole cuisine, voodoo queens, and hot jazz.
Working against this feedback loop, the contributors place New Orleans at the forefront of national patterns of urban planning, place-branding, structural inequality, and racialization.
Remaking New Orleans shows how this narrative is rooted in a romantic cultural tradition, continuously repackaged through the twin engines of tourism and economic development, and supported by research that has isolated the city from comparison and left unquestioned its entrenched inequality.
Description Approached as a wellspring of cultural Authenticity and historical exceptionality, New Orleans appears in opposition to a nation perpetually driven by progress
