Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Follow the second line
  • The Haiti-New Orleans vodou connection : Zora Neale Hurston as initiate observer
  • Mardi Gras Indians and second lines, sequin artists and rara bands : street festivals and performances in New Orleans and Haiti
  • Interlude: The healing arts of African diasporic religion
  • In rhythm with the spirit : New Orleans jazz funerals and the African diaspora
  • Epilogue : A jazz funeral for "a city that care forgot" : the New Orleans diaspora after Hurricane Katrina.