Roll With It - Matt Sakakeeny

Roll With It

Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2013
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5567-0 (ISBN)
26,15 inkl. MwSt
Roll With It is a firsthand account of the contradictory lives of New Orleans brass-band musicians. They are celebrated as cultural icons within the music scene; outside it, they are treated as faceless black males—subject to poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence.
Roll With It is a firsthand account of the precarious lives of musicians in the Rebirth, Soul Rebels, and Hot 8 brass bands of New Orleans. These young men are celebrated as cultural icons for upholding the proud traditions of the jazz funeral and the second line parade, yet they remain subject to the perils of poverty, racial marginalization, and urban violence that characterize life for many black Americans. Some achieve a degree of social mobility while many more encounter aggressive policing, exploitative economies, and a political infrastructure that creates insecurities in healthcare, housing, education, and criminal justice. The gripping narrative moves with the band members from back street to backstage, before and after Hurricane Katrina, always in step with the tap of the snare drum, the thud of the bass drum, and the boom of the tuba.

Matt Sakakeeny is an ethnomusicologist and journalist, New Orleans resident and musician. An Assistant Professor of Music at Tulane University, he initially moved to New Orleans to work as a co-producer of the public radio program American Routes. Sakakeeny has written for publications including The Oxford American, Mojo, and Wax Poetics. He plays guitar in the band Los Po-Boy-Citos. Willie Birch is an international artist who lives in New Orleans, where he was born in 1942. Birch received his BA from Southern University New Orleans in 1969 and his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 1973. He is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the State of Louisiana Governor's award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His works are part of the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

List of Artwork vii

Prologue. Crossing the Threshold ix

Introduction. Forward Motion 1

1. Onward and Upward 13

2. Constraints 69

3. Progressions 109

4. Voices 143

Conclusion. Engagements 179

Afterword. Image and Music in the Art of Willie Burch / Willie Burch and Matt Sakakeeny 187

Acknowledgments 195

Appendix. List of Interviews and Public Events 199

Notes 201

Bibliography 213

Index 227

Reihe/Serie Refiguring American Music
Illustrationen Willie Birch
Zusatzinfo 25 photographs
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
Reiseführer Nord- / Mittelamerika USA
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8223-5567-1 / 0822355671
ISBN-13 978-0-8223-5567-0 / 9780822355670
Zustand Neuware
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