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Freedom in Congo Square

Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1499804792
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Freedom in Congo Square written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016, this poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human's capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom's heart. Mondays, there were hogs to slop, mules to train, and logs to chop. Slavery was no ways fair. Six more days to Congo Square. As slaves relentlessly toiled in an unjust system in 19th century Louisiana, they all counted down the days until Sunday, when at least for half a day they were briefly able to congregate in Congo Square in New Orleans. Here they were free to set up an open market, sing, dance, and play music. They were free to forget their cares, their struggles, and their oppression. This story chronicles slaves' duties each day, from chopping logs on Mondays to baking bread on Wednesdays to plucking hens on Saturday, and builds to the freedom of Sundays and the special experience of an afternoon spent in Congo Square. This book will have a forward from Freddi Williams Evans (freddievans.com), a historian and Congo Square expert, as well as a glossary of terms with pronunciations and definitions. AWARDS: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016: Nonfiction Starred reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and The Horn Book Magazine

Ancestors of Congo Square

Author : William A. Fagaly
Publisher : Scala Books
ISBN 13 : 9781857596984
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Ancestors of Congo Square written by William A. Fagaly and published by Scala Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First comprehensive book on the extraordinary collection of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art, considered one of the best in the United States.

Congo Square in New Orleans

Author : Jerah Johnson
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781879714069
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Congo Square in New Orleans written by Jerah Johnson and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of a New Orleans landmark. Congo Square is an iconic location in New Orleans culture, filled with the echoes of jazz and the footsteps of modern dance. Brimming with the rich history of the city, this auspicious landmark traces its origins back to the 1740s. A popular gathering place for African-Americans, the square hosted public markets, musical events, and even the Congo Circus throughout its history. Johnson's detailed analysis of the development of the landmark places the deep-set culture of both the African-American community and the roots of New Orleans music firmly in the heart of Congo Square.

From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square

Author : Jeroen Dewulf
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book From the Kingdom of Kongo to Congo Square written by Jeroen Dewulf and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2017 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a provocatively new interpretation of one of New Orleans's most enigmatic traditions--the Mardi Gras Indians. By interpreting the tradition in an Atlantic context, Dewulf traces the 'black Indians' back to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo and its war dance known as sangamento. He shows that good warriors in the Kongo kingdom were per definition also good dancers, masters of a technique of dodging, spinning, and leaping that was crucial in local warfare. Enslaved Kongolese brought the rhythm, dancing moves, and feathered headwear of sangamentos to the Americas in performances that came to be known as 'Kongo dances.' By comparing Kongo dances on the African island of Saao Tomae with those in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Louisiana, Dewulf demonstrates that the dances in New Orleans's Congo Square were part of a much broader Kongolese performance tradition. He links that to Afro-Catholic mutual-aid societies that honored their elected community leaders or 'kings' with Kongo dances. While the public rituals of these brotherhoods originally thrived in the context of Catholic procession culture around Epiphany and Corpus Christi, they transitioned to carnival as a result of growing orthodoxy within the Church. Dewulf's groundbreaking research suggests a much greater impact of Kongolese traditions and of popular Catholicism on the development of African American cultural heritage and identity. His conclusions force us to radically rethink the traditional narrative on the Mardi Gras Indians, the kings of Zulu, and the origins of black participation in Mardi Gras celebrations"--Provided by publisher.

The World That Made New Orleans

Author : Ned Sublette
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1569765138
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The World That Made New Orleans written by Ned Sublette and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STRONGNamed one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. STRONGWinner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.STRONG STRONGAwarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance. The World That Made New Orleans offers a new perspective on this insufficiently understood city by telling the remarkable story of New Orleans's first century--a tale of imperial war, religious conflict, the search for treasure, the spread of slavery, the Cuban connection, the cruel aristocracy of sugar, and the very different revolutions that created the United States and Haiti. It demonstrates that New Orleans already had its own distinct personality at the time of Louisiana's statehood in 1812. By then, important roots of American music were firmly planted in its urban swamp--especially in the dances at Congo Square, where enslaved Africans and African Americans appeared en masse on Sundays to, as an 1819 visitor to the city put it, &“rock the city.&” This book is a logical continuation of Ned Sublette's previous volume, Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo, which was highly praised for its synthesis of musical, cultural, and political history. Just as that book has become a standard resource on Cuba, so too will The World That Made New Orleans long remain essential for understanding the beautiful and tragic story of this most American of cities.

Come Sunday

Author : Freddi Williams Evans
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 : 9781946160102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Come Sunday written by Freddi Williams Evans and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come Sunday: A Young Reader's History of Congo Square provides an engaging account of Congo Square and the African presence in New Orleans through culturally relevant content paired with over 130 images and primary documents. These sources provide close-up views of life during the time of the Antebellum Sunday gatherings in Congo Square. Readers are able to analyze, compare, think critically, and discuss content, which develops a deeper understanding of history and how it impacts the world today. Book jacket.

The Price of Freedom

Author : Judith Bloom Fradin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802721664
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Freedom written by Judith Bloom Fradin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Price took a chance at freedom by crossing the frozen Ohio river from Kentucky into Ohio one January night in 1856, the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was fully enforced in every state of the union. But the townspeople of Oberlin, Ohio, believed there that all people deserved to be free, so Price started a new life in town-until a crew of slave-catchers arrived and apprehended him. When the residents of Oberlin heard of his capture, many of them banded together to demand his release in a dramatic showdown that risked their own freedom. Paired for the first time, highly acclaimed authors Dennis & Judith Fradin and Pura Belpré award-winning illustrator Eric Velasquez, provide readers with an inspiring tale of how one man's journey to freedom helped spark an abolitionist movement.

The Chicken Salad Club

Author : Marsha Diane Arnold
Publisher : Dial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Chicken Salad Club written by Marsha Diane Arnold and published by Dial. This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel's great-grandfather, who is 100 years old, loves to tell stories from his past but seeks someone to join him with a new batch of stories.

How to Start Your Own Theater Company

Author : Reginald Nelson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556528132
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book How to Start Your Own Theater Company written by Reginald Nelson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With advice and instruction from an experienced actor and theater director, this pragmatic, authoritative guide imparts backstage know-how for wouldbe playhouse practitioners on everything from fundraising and finding a space to selecting plays and navigating legal issues. Chronicling three seasons at Chicago's award-winning Congo Square Theatre, this journey behind the curtain reveals the nitty-gritty details--such as managing rent, parking, and safety issues; determining tax status and calculating budgets; and finding flexible day jobs--that are often overlooked amid the zeal of artistic pursuit. Inspired by Congo Square's own unique inception, the valuable how-to also speaks directly to the many underserved audiences who want to create their own companies, including African American, Asian American, Latino, physically challenged, and GLBT communities. With lists of Equity offices, legal advisers, and important organizations, this complete resource is sure to help ambitious theater lovers establish and maintain their own successful companies.

Beautiful Crescent

Author : Joan Garvey
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781455617425
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Crescent written by Joan Garvey and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history for New Orleans' greatest admirers. This concise history of the Crescent City contains chapters covering the Mississippi River, the city's founding, European rule, and more, updated with expanded jazz and African American sections. It is a must for every library and home, and for those who love New Orleans and its rich history.

Dancing in the Streets

Author : Judy Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780917860829
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Dancing in the Streets written by Judy Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the history, social ties, fashion, dance, and music of second lines, participatory parades put on by New Orleans's network of social aid and pleasure clubs. "Dancing in the Streets" brings together historical photographs with the work of ten contemporary second line photographers, profiles all clubs active today, and explores the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the tradition"--

Good Booty

Author : Ann Powers
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062463713
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Good Booty written by Ann Powers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR Best Books of 2017 In this sweeping history of popular music in the United States, NPR’s acclaimed music critic examines how popular music shapes fundamental American ideas and beliefs, allowing us to communicate difficult emotions and truths about our most fraught social issues, most notably sex and race. In Good Booty, Ann Powers explores how popular music became America’s primary erotic art form. Powers takes us from nineteenth-century New Orleans through dance-crazed Jazz Age New York to the teen scream years of mid-twentieth century rock-and-roll to the cutting-edge adventures of today’s web-based pop stars. Drawing on her deep knowledge and insights on gender and sexuality, Powers recounts stories of forbidden lovers, wild shimmy-shakers, orgasmic gospel singers, countercultural perverts, soft-rock sensitivos, punk Puritans, and the cyborg known as Britney Spears to illuminate how eroticism—not merely sex, but love, bodily freedom, and liberating joy—became entwined within the rhythms and melodies of American song. This cohesion, she reveals, touches the heart of America's anxieties and hopes about race, feminism, marriage, youth, and freedom. In a survey that spans more than a century of music, Powers both heralds little known artists such as Florence Mills, a contemporary of Josephine Baker, and gospel queen Dorothy Love Coates, and sheds new light on artists we think we know well, from the Beatles and Jim Morrison to Madonna and Beyoncé. In telling the history of how American popular music and sexuality intersect—a magnum opus over two decades in the making—Powers offers new insights into our nation psyche and our soul.

The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé

Author : Bryan Wagner
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807170259
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé written by Bryan Wagner and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although few recognize the name of Bras-Coupé today, Bryan Wagner’s riveting history The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé illustrates why the saga of this notorious escaped slave should be a touchstone among scholars and students of the African diaspora. After losing an arm in a pitched battle with the New Orleans police in the 1830s, Bras-Coupé hid for several years in a swamp near the city. During this time, law enforcement widely publicized their manhunt for him through newspapers, wanted posters, and other media. Messages from the mayor’s office promoted a violent image of Bras-Coupé, casting him as the primary reason police needed the right to use deadly force in the course of their duties. After a former friend betrayed and killed the bandit in July 1837, local officials displayed Bras-Coupé’s corpse in the Place d’Armes, where they ordered slaves to bear witness. The Bras-Coupé legend grew after his death and took on fantastic dimensions. Storytellers gave him superpowers. His skin, it was alleged, could not be punctured by bullets. His gaze could turn men to stone. Folklorists have transcribed many such examples of the tradition, and writers, including George Washington Cable and Robert Penn Warren, have adapted it into novels. Over time, new details appeared in the mythology and the legend transformed. Some said that he was an African prince before he was kidnapped and brought to Louisiana; others, that he was the most famous performer at Congo Square, playing an indispensable role in the preservation of African music and dance. Sidney Bechet, one of the city’s most celebrated composers and reed players, even suggested it was Bras-Coupé who invented jazz. Including fugitive slave advertisements, arrest records, and journalism from the 1830s, this critical edition collects the most important primary materials related to Bras-Coupé’s story. Wagner’s timely and deft examination of this unique historical figure reveals how a single man’s life, shaped by the horrors of slavery and the cultural mélange of Louisiana, can evolve into legend.

Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square

Author : Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957427280
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square written by Anastasia Taylor-Lind and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title by Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a series of portraits of anti-government protestors and mourners made in a makeshift photographic studio in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kiev.

Swimming Home

Author : Kayla Rodney
Publisher : Unlikely Books
ISBN 13 : 9781733714327
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Swimming Home written by Kayla Rodney and published by Unlikely Books. This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of poetry by Kayla Rodney focuses on her experiences with New Orleans, tragedy, and hurricanes, especially Katrina.

Congo Square

Author : Freddi Williams Evans
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 : 9781935754039
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Congo Square written by Freddi Williams Evans and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive study of one of the New World's most sacred sites of African American memory and community.

Congo

Author : David Van Reybrouck
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780062200129
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Congo written by David Van Reybrouck and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war that has raged from 1996 to the present day, Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the history of one of the most devastated nations in the world. Esteemed scholar David Van Reybrouck balances hundreds of interviews with a diverse range of Congolese with meticulous historical research to construct a multidimensional portrait of a nation and its people. Epic in scope yet eminently readable, both penetrating and deeply moving, Congo—a finalist for the Cundill Prize—takes a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective, and returns a nation's history to its people.