Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans, New Edition

Richard Brent Turner is Professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. He is author of Islam in the African-American Experience (IUP, 2003). In the late 1990s, Turner lived in New Orleans while teaching at Xavier University.

"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

• PrefaceIntroduction to the Second EditionSelected Bibliography for the Second EditionIntroduction: Follow the Second Line1. The Haiti-New Orleans Vodou Connection: Zora Neale Hurston as Initiate Observer2. Mardi Gras Indians and Second Lines, Sequin Artists and Rara Bands: Street Festivals and Performances in New Orleans and HaitiInterlude: The Healing Arts of African Diasporic Religion3. In Rhythm with the Spirit: New Orleans Jazz Funerals and the African DiasporaEpilogue. A Jazz Funeral for "A City That Care Forgot": The New Orleans Diaspora after Hurricane KatrinaNotesBibliographyIndex