Titlebook: New Orleans Rhythm and Blues After Katrina; Music, Magic and Myt Michael Urban Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 20

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Book 2016cane Katrina nearly terminated the city, New Orleans and its music—in no small part due to the sacrifices and labors of its musicians—have come back even stronger. Dancing to their own drum, New Orleanians again prove themselves to be admirably out of step with the rest of America..

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Introduction,ties—say, Dr John, Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint or Irma Thomas—no one playing rhythm and blues (R&B) music in New Orleans these days entertains reasonable expectations about achieving fame and fortune by spearheading a revival of this music. Too many things have changed since the halcyon days of the

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New Orleans Musicians, an attendant set of individual and collective practices. The former is immediately observable in the fact that no other city in the US has generated such a robust signifier for those making music within its borders as has New Orleans. Of course, it is possible to speak of, say, Los Angeles musician

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New Orleans Rhythm and Blues in Historical Perspective,space, home to all manner of extraordinary beings: pirates and parade princesses, vampires and voodoo queens, Mardi Gras Indians and dancing skeletons and, closer to our topic, piano professors and piano princes. This chapter concerns the significance that the city’s musical history and heritage hol

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New Orleans Rhythm and Blues in Contemporary Perspective,er of them balked at my question about the distinctive characteristics of New Orleans rhythm and blues. In either instance, they would explain that they simply did not think in such terms. They saw little point in putting labels on an ineffable thing such as music and, to the extent that they might

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Supporting Roles,act with a host of organizations constituting a sort of music support structure on which effectively all musicians have come to depend. As I wish to show in this chapter, this support structure consists of a number of interrelated organizations whose various activities are carried on in concert, inp

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