Description: He describes how second line participants create their own social space and become proficient in the arts of political disguise, resistance, and performance.
Review Quotes:
"With this book Turner issues both a warning and reassurance that while post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans is changing, the vibrant traditions of jazz religion and second lines must continue."--Journal of African American History
"People who were there should read this book. People who were not there must read it."--PopMatters
"I highly recommend this text to undergrads, grads, faculty, and researchers. Its pages unfold critical analysis for the advanced scholar, and its prose makes clear a complex culture to the casual learner."--Journal of African American Studies
"Turner straddles religion, music, the performance arts, languages, nationalities, and identities skillfully . . . with aplomb, with brio, in a language all his own that sings."--Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, editor of Haitian Vodou, reviewing a previous edition or volume
"A well-written, well-researched, thoughtful, and generative book."--George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara, reviewing a previous edition or volume
"Turner straddles religion, music, the performance arts, languages, nationalities, and identities skillfully . . . with aplomb, with brio, in a language all his own that sings."--Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, editor of Haitian Vodou
"A well-written, well-researched, thoughtful, and generative book."--George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara