Title

Traidtional New Orleans Jazz as a Methaphor for American Life

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Dr. Michael White, Xavier University of Louisiana

Document Type

Report

Date

2010

Keywords

Imagining America

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities

Description/Abstract

Michael G. White, jazz musician, scholar, and professor of Spanish and African American Music, Xavier University of Louisiana, weaves a profound understanding of the meaning of traditional New Orleans jazz with the ideals of democratic life. Through his own words and live music from his four-piece ensemble, White explores the way traditional jazz foregrounds ideas about cultural and racial identity; the centrality of cultural practice as a medium for personal and political response to political realities; and the harmonies and tensions between virtuosic and collaborative invention. In this interactive Foreseeable Future, we provide online musical clips from Dr. White’s keynote address, and invite the reader to experience the impact of what is typically the ephemerality of live performance. This essay was originally presented as the keynote address for Imagining America’s 2009 conference in New Orleans.

Additional Information

This manuscript is from Imagining America, for more see: http://imaginingamerica.org/publications/foreseeable-futures/

or: http://imaginingamerica.org/fg-item/traditional-new-orleans-jazz-as-a-metaphor-for-american-life/?parent=520

Recommended Citation

White, Dr. Michael, "Traidtional New Orleans Jazz as a Methaphor for American Life" (2010). Imagining America. 6.
https://surface.syr.edu/ia/6

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