Title: New Orleans :
Authors: Ostendorf, Berndt.
Date: 2013
Publisher: StudienVerlag ;
Physical description: 203 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: New Orleans: a Caribbean metropolis of the senses -- Jazz funerals and the second line: African American celebration and public space -- "Jambalaya, crawfish pie and filé gumbo" : the creolizing cuisines of New Orleans -- Creole cultures and the process of creolization: with special attention to Louisiana -- Et in Acadia ego: The renaissance of Cajun culture from 1968 to the present -- Rhythm, riots, and revolution: political paranoia, cultural fundamentalism and African American music -- Double consciousnes revisited: African American expressive culture and the dilemma of interpretation -- The musical world of Doctorow's Ragtime -- Subversive reeducation? : jazz as a liberating force in Europe -- Growing up in the fifties: jazz, the Cold War and the birth of American studies -- Is American culture jazz-shaped? : African American rules of performance.
Subject headings (LCSH): African Americans--Music--History and criticism.; Creoles--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.; Creoles--Louisiana--New Orleans--Music--History and criticism.; Jazz--History and criticism.